Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanded respect on Capitol Hill. Backslapping Congressmen did not especially take to him, but they appreciated his cold competence. They also appreciated the fact that he appeared to stand above ordinary Washington politicking. If he was ever devious, it was a deviousness too subtle for the average human eye. On the record, his methods were straight and direct. He sometimes got impatient at congressional questioning, but managed pretty well to cover it up; only occasionally did his voice become edgy and curt. Once, when he was Assistant Secretary, he spent a whole day under the grueling, stubborn fire...
...usual the yardlings will go into a big game without enough practice behind them. However, the Crimson defense will be back at its old strength because Captain Dusty Burke has returned to his regular defense position. Furthermore, since the Belmont Hill game he has managed to remove the rust he accumulated while his collar bone was broken...
...years the Protestants have magnified the effect of their strength by a shrewd drawing of district boundaries, to pile up the votes where they counted the most. The Catholic party bitterly resented such gerrymandering. "See that woman pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted...
...Service. For Budd, such up & coming railroading was a matter of habit. An Iowa farm boy trained as a civil engineer, he began railroading at 20 on the Chicago Great Western. After a spell of work on the Panama Canal, he became an assistant to Empire Builder Jim Hill on the Great Northern. In 1919, a few years after Hill's death, Budd, at 40, stepped into Hill...
...million improving the service. In 1930, as a sort of busman's holiday, he took on a job for the Soviet Union. He inspected its 4,800 miles of badly managed railways and recommended ways of improving them. In 1932, Budd stepped into the Burlington (jointly owned by Hill's Great Northern and the Northern Pacific) which had been hit hard by the depression...