Word: frisco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some it is the black capital of the world. Says Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, pro basketball star and part owner of Small's Paradise, one of Harlem's remaining handful of clubs with live entertainment: "A Negro here is different from a Negro in Philly or Frisco because he belongs...
...Carroll Baker is a girl on the way up; Van Johnson is a man of a certain amount of principle who follows along for a certain distance. The dialogue is studded with the kind of cracks that only canned TV audiences find funny. Californians refer to San Francisco as "Frisco." How, one muses, does a show like this ever reach Boston, let alone Broadway...
...sabotage. Acid dumped from highway overpasses ruined the paint jobs on one shipment of 29 autos and on another of 150. The railroad had to pay $484,000 for the damage. Other railroads have had cars damaged by shotgun blasts or peppered with rocks. To guard the shipments, Frisco's auto trains now carry an extra caboose and an extra crew...
...training the teams of dogs that hunt bear through the canebrakes along the Mississippi-big hounds that run the bear into exhaustion, and darting terriers that hold him at bay while the huntsmen come crashing up. Says Morton: "Once, after we shot a bear we found a terrier named Frisco lying under him with a mouthful of bearskin and a look on his face as if to say 'Well, it's about time you got here...
...Frisco's Gilliland also put Frisco engineers to work to design a special auto-carrying freight car. They devised a triple-deck, 85-ft. flatcar capable of carrying twelve standard or 15 compact cars v. eight or ten cars piggybacked. The Frisco commissioned Pullman Inc. to build a prototype, and after testing it ordered 129 more. The first went into service in August, proved so economical that the St. Louis-Dallas delivery charge was reduced to $65.05 for a standard car, $54 for a compact. By the end of this month, when all 130 of the new cars...