Word: railman
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Also invited before the Grand Jury was Railman Loomis who appeared in Washington in no sweet mood. Said he: "You don't expect ME to discuss anything that happens at a private dinner, do you? You'll have to rely on the laboratory experience and smelling propensities of Senator Brookhart...
...Railman Frank Taplin, 55, began his industrial career 42 years ago, started in as office boy for no less famed an employer than John D. Rockefeller Sr. (The present "Taplin interests" include a vague but potent backing from the Rockefeller family, whereas the Van Sweringens are more directly indebted to the House of Morgan.) Mr. Taplin's father was manager of the refined oil department and was later vice president of the old Standard Oil Co. But it was coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal...