Word: diner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cars. He is closing a deal with one road to supply its meals much as he does the airlines' and he is dickering with several others. Dobbs figures that he will be able to serve better food than railroad passengers now get, and at the same time cut diner losses at least in half...
...Ohio Railroad was sued for $50,000 by the mother of one of two men who held up a B. & O. streamliner in West Virginia. Mrs. Ruth Ungar complained that her boy had had a few when he got aboard the train. He was allowed more drinks in the diner, became "intoxicated and insouciant," and that's what led him to armed robbery, she argued. She didn't mention that George was on probation from an Ohio reformatory or explain why he was packing a pistol...
...revolting," said a fastidious diner at a West End hotel. "I simply couldn't stomach horseflesh." And with that she went on spreading her toast with the savory pâté maison which only the trade called by its proper name: processed horse...
...were radios in every room, built-in nurseries, movie theaters, lounge cars with Astra Domes, and trim hostesses. Were these wonders for him, or just for the cross-the-country glamor trade? Would he still have to stand in line 20 minutes or more for a seat in the diner? Would trains still lurch like a wounded moose on jolting roadbeds? Perhaps what the passenger really wanted was less fluorescent and chromium luxury and more plain, old-fashioned convenience and comfort...
Inflation. In Orange, N.J., patrons of Willie's Diner watched fascinated as a drunk garnished his hamburgers with four $1 bills and a fiver, gobbled it all down...