Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transcontinental rail passengers have finally been granted the privilege a pig has; they will not have to change trains in Chicago. Under the needling of Chesapeake & Ohio's Bob Young ("a hog can cross the country without changing trains, but you can't"), seven major roads* teamed up to start through-sleeper service this week between New York, Washington and Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco...
...Russians, he said, took 70% to 80% of Anshan's equipment, including foundry tools, machine shop, steel rolling and milling machines, chemical equipment, trucks, locomotives. The booty was sent by rail to Dairen and to Russian-occupied Korea, for shipment to Russia...
Pillbox Mailbox. In Evergreen Bluff, Mich., Allen Chesbro, after five successive wooden mailboxes had been flattened by drunken drivers, built No. 6 on a 15-in. steel beam, buttressed by 16 tons of concrete, guarded by a 130-lb. rail, topped off by an ominous replica of a blockbuster bomb...
Within minutes after the hero had crossed the last divide, Denver's Mayor Robert W. Speer was out to claim him. Buffalo Bill dead and enshrined would obviously be a greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...
...Fred Harvey system, famed for the fine food with which it has lined the stomachs of Western rail travelers, last week got a new president. Byron Schemerhorn Harvey Jr. is a grandson of the founder. Young (39), well-tailored Mr. Harvey, connoisseur of Indian art and holder of a master's degree in restaurant management from the University of Chicago, succeeded his father, who moved up to the board chairmanship. When M-G-M recently paid tribute to the Harvey system in The Harvey Girls, Byron Harvey was technical adviser, played a small part...