Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Railroad careers are more promising according to John Behringer, Vice-President of the Rock Island Railroad, because of the growing number of management training programs. He described the Rock Island Railroad's efforts to pick the most promising new employees and prepare them for executive positions...
...Panama, where a determined tourist can pick up the road after a sea trip, has a road of varying quality to the canal. Beyond lies the forbidding Darien country-400 miles of lofty jungles, wide rivers and spiny mountains not yet even surveyed...
Kruger estimated that Monday's pledges showed a gain of 150 pints over the fall's first day total of 300. "I hope the pledges will pick up in the next few days," Kruger said. "They'll have to to top the fall total of 2,600 pledges," he added...
Police tow all cars to Ellery garage, 418 Broadway, but in order to pick up their cars, operators must first report to the Cambridge Police Station. Police require this so that they can take down addresses of the city's elusive out of state violators...
...temper. Tony won only one major title (French singles) all last year. Only as a member of the successful U.S. Davis Cup team (TIME, Jan. 10) did he come up to his old form. Time was running out: another year as an also-ran and Tony might have to pick a new profession...