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...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...
...stifling, the shuttered windows keeping out the fresh air. Pork, veal and beef seldom appeared on the menus, but there was plenty of venison, wild pig and wildfowl. Shot on estates and in forests, they would not provide an inexhaustible food supply. These dishes were expensive, but the diner had to take them or else get nothing...
...dress hall, dancing will be from 10 to 3 o'clock, and will be preceded by a steak dinner earlier in the evening. During the diner hour the House has provided music and entertainment for the Puritan frolickers...
...shrewd but generous man, a violent stickler over restaurant bills but an open-handed charitarian. When the U. S. entered the World War, he promptly arranged to give half his income to the Red Cross. Yet he was so enraged at being overcharged ten cents in a railroad diner that he spent days brooding and writing letters of protest to the company...