Word: fe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dunce cap for the phrase-bungling reviewer of The Secrets of Caroline Cherie [March 19] ! He writes, "... where the movie heroine was chained fully clothed to the tracks to be torn asunder by the Santa Fe express, Caroline is generally denuded by persuers intent on joining her in union specific." Why didn't this wastrel substitute for "Santa Fe express" "Union Pacific...
...known to countless thousands of Frenchmen, always wins-not least when she chooses to surrender. She is like the heroine of an old movie serial, with the important difference that where the movie heroine was chained fully clothed to the tracks to be torn asunder by the Santa Fe express, Caroline is generally denuded by pursuers intent on joining her in union specific. As she herself sportingly admits at a critical moment (she is hanging almost naked from a rafter in a subzero temperature): "There is something better to do with . . . women than to kill them...
...rambunctious newcomer among Midwest railroaders is Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman, 42. Less than two years ago, he won a proxy fight for control of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, has since boosted earnings per share 14% to $2.35. He is also trying to outbid the Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania for little Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, a main bypass around Chicago for transcontinental freight. Last week Heineman announced that he is after a much bigger prize: the long (7,870 miles) and longtime ailing Chicago & North Western Railway, which runs from Chicago to Lander...
...million, spent some $240 million to improve it.-It was Harriman who pioneered automatic block signals, spanned Utah's Great Salt Lake with 16 miles of embankment and twelve miles of trestle. The S.P. is the nation's second-longest railroad (after the Santa Fe); adding wholly owned affiliates and the Cotton Belt, which it controls (88%), it is the longest, with 14,854 miles of road...
...move in. Every day at least one new company chooses a site on S.P.'s right of way; 15,000 new freight cars are on order. Southern Pacific's 1954 net of $48.7 million made it the third most profitable U.S. railroad (after Union Pacific and Santa Fe), and 1955 profits reached $56 million. To continue to earn such good profits, Russell believes that railroads must change with the times. Instead of carping about airlines, he wants to operate them. Says he: "If the train is going to be outrun, why shouldn't we go along? There...