Word: railing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular routes from the British Columbia coasts with cargoes of furs for China, Britain and the U.S. Pelts were only the beginning. The cry "gold" brought a clamoring horde of adventurers sweeping north from the U.S. to mining camps along the Fraser in the 1850s. By 1885, when a rail line stitched British Columbia to the rest of Canada, the province was already...
...first rivalry was really just prologue. By New Year's major U.S. airlines will be flying timetable jet trips from New York to California. San Francisco, once no days away from New York by sailing packet, 2½ days away by rail and eight hours by nonstop piston transport, will move to a short distance of 4½ hours. The 49th state of Alaska will be closer to Washington-nine hours or so-than was the capital of Delaware...
...president given to walking the streets of Dayton, flapping his arms at his pal Orville Wright and screeching: "How's the airplane, Orville?" Johnny's wealthy parents were divorced when he was seven, and his mother moved him to Springfield, Ohio, where he slept in a "brass-rail bed with a dead mouse in the corner." After a World War II tour with the Marines and a nodding acquaintance with college, Johnny entered a Dayton amateur show-and won. Jack Paar gave him his big chance...
...slightly ahead of August 1957; the New York Central squeaked into the black by $274,777. Western roads showed their highest earnings of the year; Southern Pacific's August earnings of $5,200,000 topped August 1957 by $528,000. Reflecting the improved earnings picture, the Dow Jones rail average on the New York Stock Exchange climbed to a 1958 high of 141.80, helped pace the industrials to another alltime high...
...Southern students' failure to conform to a certain image lies in the fact that they actually represent a vast divergence of background. Historic sea ports like Charleston and New Orleans resemble Boston or a West Coast port; inland cities like Chattanooga or Atlanta are primarily industrial, farming, and rail centers...