Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of 1,000 executive offices in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, the Guild found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
Foreign Service. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., arrested for illegal entry into the U.S. for the fifth time, after he crossed the border atop a boxcar and wandered into a police station looking for a place to sleep, 18-year-old Jacque Paul Norman Gagne told immigration officials his ambition: to go to Washington and get a job as a Treasury Department investigator...
...Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots...
...Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They are all colorful, but the Technicolor looks as if it were printed on the back of an old tortilla...
...BOXCAR SCARCITY is slowing rail shipments. With carloadings at 774,419 weekly (up 13.6% from the same week of 1954), the shortage is running at an average of 6.552 cars daily. To prevent it from becoming critical, the U.S. Commerce Department and Office of Defense Mobilization are considering loans and subsidies to spur construction of new boxcars...