Word: railroad
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Since U.S. railroads are in financial trouble as rarely before, more and more railroad men are thinking of mergers. Last week word leaked out of a merger possibility among seven major eastern and Great Lakes lines, discussed recently at a Cleveland meeting of the lines' executives. The lines: Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis), and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western...
White denied that a specific merger proposal was considered at the meeting, but other railroad men admitted that such a move would be "logical." Said John Barriger, president of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, who drew up the operational report for the Central and Pennsy: "It would be perfectly natural and constructive for other railroads to integrate into a second system. Then you would have two equally balanced systems in the east...
Died. Janie Brady Jones, 92, widow of John Luther ("Casey'') Jones, railroad engineer made immortal by a folk song; following a stroke; in Jackson, Tenn. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...student is "taught" in the sense that his responses to certain problems and situations are guided and formed by the machines. The actual machines are simple. They consist of a small control box, something like the transformer of a toy electric railroad, with buttons that advance, hold or return verbal information. This information, called the program, is printed on disks, tapes or cards. One frame, or question-answer unit, appears to the student at a time...
...flow of rheum continued. "At first," Mrs. Pusey recalls, "Senator McCarthy wasn't interested in the President of Lawrence College. But the President of Harvard, he knew, was someone who would get him national coverage." She recollects having met McCarthy only once, a youngish, nondescript man on a railroad train parlor car to Chicago...