Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director Waddill Catchings, recorded it on eight disks by a new process which catches more sound vibrations per second than do others currently in use. The records were made by special order of Walter P. Chrysler, who is distinctly proud of the choir which grew spontaneously in his factory. Motorman Chrysler last week was planning to give to his friends such selections as Home on the Range, The Hallelujah Chorus, The Mulligan Musketeers, O Bone Jesu, Cornfield Melodies...
...slow-witted subway motorman goes to pieces at his fear of conscription, is saved by running away with his train...
...Transport Board, and proceeded to drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman was, screeched to an abrupt automatic stop...
Just ahead a subway train had broken down. "P. G." decided that since it must be pushed to the next station by the train he was driving, he would stay at the motorman's post and do the pushing, a feat mildly ticklish. With undergroundmen, including Lord Ashfield, perspiring profusely, "P. G." pushed successfully. "I assure you, Sir," cried flustered Lord Ashfield as they alighted, "that the breakdown experience you have had is one which one of our drivers might not encounter in a lifetime...
Author Loening stoutly defends Orville Wright in the famed controversy with the Smithsonian Institution over Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Bitterest Loening scorn is reserved for the Wartime Aircraft Production Board headed by Motorman Howard Earle Coffin, whom he accuses of having led a "Detroit conspiracy" in "crafty scheming to wean away aviation from its rightful owners...