Word: brakeman
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...railroad brakeman (A.T.S.F.) and my investments in the stocks of Santa Fe, Western Pacific and Southern Pacific have enabled me to take my family to Europe every summer...
...into the No. 9 bend, nicknamed the Hexenkessel, or Witches' Pot. The sled slid up the 40-ft. bank, bounced down and ricocheted sickeningly from wall to wall. Ähs's upper front teeth were sheared off on the ice; both his legs were fractured twice. His brakeman was thrown free, broke only one leg. Next day the U.S. sled steered by Joe McKillip, 30, slammed into a soft snow wall as it neared the finish line; McKillip was hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder and lacerated cheek. The day after, a Canadian driver's throat was gashed...
...trial runs were suspended for a day, while the icy run was narrowed for safety's sake. But the rebuilding job did not curb the mounting casualties. A French sled came to grief in the Hexenkessel and skidded down out of control; the brakeman was carted off with a severe brain concussion...
Died. Roy Barton White, 77, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad executive, a brakeman's son who became a telegrapher at 16, the East's youngest rail president (Jersey Central) at 43 and Western Union boss from 1933 to 1941, then took over the woebegone B. & O., after eleven years as president declared the road's first dividend in three decades and shortly moved up to the chairmanship; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...
...accompaniment, and so does the book itself - a collection of short pieces about the wandering years in which he ambled through the experiences that look so impressive when summarized on the back of a dust jacket. Kerouac is daffy and exuberant as he tells of working as an apprentice brakeman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, flunkeying on a freighter from Oakland to New Orleans, blasting exaltedly on O(pium) with a Mexican narcotics wholesaler. But the author is not wholly a praiser of his own beat-romantic past. He admits to behavior so much worse than square that...