Word: brakeman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reader's Digest has never actually printed an article titled "New Hope for the Dead," but probably not for want of trying. For 50 years the Digest has taught Americans how to cope with everything from brakeman's headache to athlete's foot, and this preoccupation continues today with a series of first-person articles-told by the body's organs. One of the latest: "I Am Joe's Prostate...
...KANSAS CITY, MO. Long-haired young Brakeman George Ketner, sporting bell-bottomed jeans stenciled with (missing male symbol)and (missing female symbol) symbols, says he likes working the Super C: "All you have to do is get on at the beginning and get off at the end of the run." The train pulls out past the Santa Fe's year-old Argentine sorting yard, equipped with one IBM System 360 Model 30 and two Honeywell DDP-516 computers, which have speeded up car movements through the yard by about 50%. Two delegations of Japanese railroadmen have inspected...
Will there be any tough cops for brakeman...
...year ago Mike Loop, a Union Pacific conductor-brakeman, and his wife Linda began organizing the reunion by rounding up addresses with Marsha Stewart's help. Out of a class of 348 -one died, electrocuted in 1960 while surveying near Salina-195 appeared. They met and caroused fondly, with many shocks of recognition. Harold Snedker turned up, now an Air Force captain with two children, and an expert on missiles. "The Air Force is changing," he remarked at one point. "Today the officers are not Southern cops. We need good young officers who aren't afraid to think...
...first Blue Grass recording was made in 1940, the successful "Mule-skinner Blues," a tune authored by another pioneer of early country music, Jimmy Rodgers, the "Singing Brakeman." In these early days, Bill Monroe's band contained mandolin, guitar, fiddle and string bass, the last of these being the only instrument not found in traditional country music. In 1945 the Blue Grass band took the form in which it remains today, with the addition of a five-string banjo, played by Earl Scruggs in the now universal three-finger style. which bears little resemblance to the earlier "claw hammer" style...