Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hasn't changed much since stagecoaches to Columbus stopped there 75 years ago. The village has two restaurants, four churches and an undertaker-but no railroad station, bank or high school. Most Lithopolitans are in the farming or feed business. But Lithopolis has something most hamlets haven...
...Southworth, "we never talk baseball. I don't reprimand the boys for their mistakes after a game. I let a man sleep on it and talk to him next day. He doesn't resent it that way. There's no browbeating on my team. Actually, I haven't any reason to think that there's a fellow on the Braves who dislikes...
...close-to-the-vest fight for control of New England's biggest railroad, Boston's shrewd, old (82) Frederic C. Dumaine held an impressive hand. Dumaine interests had claimed that they had picked up enough New York, New Haven & Hartford stock to elect eleven of the 16 directors (TIME, May 17). Last week, with a stockholders' showdown meeting still a month off, the opposition folded up. Howard S. Palmer, who, Boston charged, was too close to New York interests, resigned after 14 years as New Haven's president. To make New England's victory over...
...Haven, Whittemore will have a road to run on which steam is already up. Palmer did a good job guiding the road through a twelve-year bankruptcy, got it back on its feet with its indebtedness greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...
Whittemore will carry the modernization north to New England. One of the issues in the fight for control of the New Haven was Palmer's intention to abandon the money-losing (over $3,000,000 last year) Old Colony branch road from Boston to Cape Cod. Whittemore hopes not only to retain the Old Colony line, but to make it pay by bringing its equipment up to the road's new standards...