Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleeting moment, driving from his home in Rumson, N.J. to the Jersey Central railroad station at Red Bank, New York Stockbroker Paul Land, 48, was tempted to turn around and spend the sunny day at home. But when Jersey Central's No. 3314 rumbled in at 9:16. Paul Land was there as he had been nearly every working day for 15 years. As he had for 15 years, he climbed aboard the second ancient coach of five, took the second seat on the left-hand side, unfolded the New York Times, and settled back for the 57-minute...
...commuters were as lucky as Land. One arm and one foot broken. Trainman Joe McDonald struggled to the door of the first coach and, in a welter of lifeless bodies, floated up to sunlight. Lloyd Nelson, 33. of Little Silver, N.J.. a survivor of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died at the bottom...
Prospects seem dim for any fast improvement in many key industries. Railroad employment plunged from 985,000 last year to 626,000 last May, and there has been virtually no rehiring. In nonelectrical heavy machinery, employment dropped from 1,738,000 last year to 1,486,000 last May, slid still farther in August. Chemical-industry employment dipped from last year's 845,000 to last May's 817,000 to August's 812,800. In steel, the United Steel Workers reported that the number laid off has risen from 212,000 in February...
...Moreover, the averages are heavily weighted in favor of leading blue chips, most of which have risen in the bull market. Thus they do not show that many another stock has declined. Some 40% of all stocks that were listed on the exchange in 1946-especially airlines, textiles and railroad equipment-are actually lower now than their 1946 peaks...
...sides for basketball chose Negro players. Negroes and whites ate together in the school cafeteria, though not at the same tables. At assembly, whites and Negroes, getting less tentative by the minute, stood up and sang the school song On, Fulton High to the tune of Working on the Railroad (which many of their fathers, whites and Negroes...