Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using a little old lady's house as a temporary hideout. Their kindly landlady eventually discovers what the quintet actually is, but not one of the grim crooks summons enough nerve to eliminate this liability in old lace. Unable to kill her, the frantic thieves fall out. Luckily a railroad bridge is handy; bodies are dumped into passing freight trains with delightful regularity to the solemn accompaniment of pompous funeral marches...
WHEN Lawyer George Alpert took over the ailing New Haven Railroad, his first move was to call in a management consultant. As soon as Joseph Grazier became president of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary, he sent for a consultant. While Dwight Eisenhower was campaigning in 1952, businessmen backers called in McKinsey & Co. (TIME, Jan. 12,1953), to determine the 250 top policymaking jobs through which the Republicans could make their policies felt...
...Retired Railroad Conductor Bryant of Lebanon Junction, Ky. is a troubled man. Last week in The Review and Expositor, journal of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, he told...
...RAILROAD PROFITS will be laid before the public in a $100 million ad campaign, if New York Central Boss Robert R. Young has his way. Young is disturbed over the fact that the industry earns barely 4% profit v. at least 6% for other public utilities, wants the roads to spend 7½% of their pre-tax earnings in a campaign to spread their financial "dangers" before the public...
Died. Frank Jay Gould, 78, youngest son of the late buccaneering railroad tycoon, Jay (Black Friday) Gould, who boosted the $10 million inherited from his father to a reported $100 million; at his villa, Soleil d'Or; in Juan-les-Pins, France. Francophile Gould moved to France in 1913 for a "temporary residence" that lasted for 43 years, made a fortune in race horses and real estate, turned the quiet backwater of Juan-les-Pins into a famed international...