Word: diner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...content a gourmet and good diner...
...Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank & Trust Co.. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Studebaker Corp. In later years, Lawyer Cravath rarely tried a case or wrote a brief, but engineered some notable reorganizations: Westinghouse, Missouri Pacific R. R., Interborough Rapid Transit Co. A globetrotter, diner-out, music-lover (he became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera in 1931), Paul Cravath served in many a public enterprise, was decorated for his part in World War I missions...
Into the darkness and silence streamed rescuers. From twisted cars, one of which had had its roof stripped off, they extracted the injured, the dead and the dying. Telescoped into the tender was the Limited's baggage car. Six sleepers, the diner and a day coach of the 15-car train were jerked off the track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody...