Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long Conductor Shaw's San Diego phase will last nobody knows; this nervous man in a hurry is allergic to stagnation. Says Shaw: "The ages 45 to 65 are a man's most productive years, and I'm just ten months short of 40-so I haven't any time to lose...
Later when the deal was finally sewn up, O'Neil was flown back to General Tire's Akron headquarters to get the board's approval, finally stumbled into bed, groaning: "I haven't had any sleep for 36 hours. He's a very clever man, a very clever man." Hughes's estimated profit: about...
...Commuter Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, fired off a formal protest to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the New York Public Service Commission listing six specific complaints against McGinnis' operation of the New Haven. Among the charges: trains are so dangerously crowded that passengers must ride in the vestibules; engineers exceed the speed limits trying to make up time lost in slow loading procedures; McGinnis' claim of 89% on-time performance is untrue as far as commuter trains are concerned. By Cousins' own count, only six of 30 trains were on time during one month...
...commuter revolt against McGinnis' decision to charge $5.50 a month for parking privileges at most New Haven suburban stations (TIME, July 4) had him on the run. At first, when commuters objected, President McGinnis snapped angrily that he was not running "the Ford Foundation," and added: "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks, people act as though I've torn up the tracks." Last week he realized that such cracks were "a public-relations blunder." He postponed indefinitely the Norwalk parking fee, scheduled a series of meetings to mollify the New Haven's commuters...