Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant gas-turbine locomotive that burns a cheap grade of fuel oil, and can haul maximum-length freights (120 cars) at 65 m.p.h. Next year the Union Pacific will try out a newer model, which it hopes will burn an even cheaper fuel-powdered coal. Such roads as the Denver & Rio Grande Western are looking even farther ahead. Its staff of scientists has already developed an atomic signal lamp that will stay bright for twelve years by using radioactive isotopes, is also at work on an atomic-powered locomotive...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...
Correspondent Ogle, who was born in Indiana but reared in Colorado, is well accustomed to such a far-ranging beat. He was assistant managing editor of the New Orleans States and one of our string correspondents when he came to the staff in 1951 as Denver bureau chief. Recalling the day his family arrived in Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado...
...Ogle children, except for 18-year-old Eric, who is now a Navy communications technician in North Africa, and Sandra, 20, who will continue nurse's training in Denver, were delighted about the move to Canada. All avid campers and fishermen, they looked forward to new adventures in rich and rugged western Canada. Soon after he heard about the transfer, son Kelly, 7, sighed: "I'm waiting about as fast...
Self-loading Truck. Denver's Mighty Mover Co. showed off an open framework trailer truck that drives over its load, then, with cables on pulleys, hoists the load firmly into the framework. The Straddle Trailer, which can pick up loads 50 ft. long, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. high, can be pulled by a truck cab at speeds up to 60 m.p.h. (cost...