Word: glen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president and chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Railroading has taken him to almost every town and branch line on the system: one year he spent 200 nights on sleepers. The son of a baggage master, Symes (rhymes with hymns) grew up near the tracks in his native Glen Osborne, Pa., got a job at 18 on the Pennsy. From clerk he was soon promoted to car tracer, to statistician in Cleveland, to freight movement director in Pittsburgh, to passenger superintendent in Chicago, to freight chief for the entire system. For the job he did heading up the Pennsy...
...look at the new European sports cars. His first, purchase was a chirpy little British MG, soon followed by a 2- liter Ferrari and a Jaguar I 20. Meanwhile, the sportscar revival in the U.S. was gathering speed. A highly successful road race was held in 1948 at Watkins Glen. N.Y., another at Bridgehampton, L.I. in 1949. The enthusiasm spread to races at Elkhart Lake, Ind., and to the West Coast at Pebble Beach, Calif. Cunningham, more enthusiastic than most, was able to do something about...
...Watkins Glen race of 1949, he met Phil Walters and Bill Frick, who were operating a Long Island custom-repair shop for U.S. and foreign cars.***** They got to chatting about the feasibility of an American sports car, and before long B. S. Cunningham Inc. was formed, with Phil Walters as general manager...
...Downs. Since then, U.S. road racing has had its ups & downs. In 1950, Sam Collier, a close friend of Cunningham and one of the original Sports Car Club enthusiasts, was killed in a Ferrari in the Watkins Glen Race. Two years later a skidding Cadillac-Allard killed a youngster who was watching from a Watkins Glen sidewalk. The same year, a driver was killed at Bridgehampton. Again there was a public hue & cry, an echo of the Vanderbilt Cup days, and road racing was on its uppers...
...next 50 to 75 years, for a total of 137 dams, which would provide flood control and irrigation for 10 million acres of land in ten states, and have a capacity of 3,200,000 kw. The next dams, if Congress approves, are to be started at Glen Canyon and Bridge Canyon on the Colorado River...