Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until a year ago, the regular patrons of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad were abnormally contented commuters. Unlike many of their brethren who traveled on other lines, the New Haven crowd (35,000 suburbanites on the New York end, 22,000 in Boston) liked their trains; when other commuters cursed and griped about poor service, they smiled smugly and accepted their own discomforts as part of the daily grind. Now all is changed. For months, in the newspapers and at hearings in New York City, Boston and Stamford. Conn., the commuters have complained bitterly about sloppy service, endless...
Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
...exhibition run, General Motors' 400-passenger Aerotrain streaked over the Pennsylvania Railroad from Washington to Philadelphia in two hours-as fast as the crack Congressional Limited. The same day, another Aerotrain rolled out of Chicago over the tracks of the New York Central and highballed 284 miles to Detroit in four hours, an hour better than the fastest passenger express. Even more impressive than its speed is the Aerotrain's low operating cost. For the Chicago-Detroit run, fuel cost only $18, about one-fourth the costs of a conventional^ train. G.M. engineers estimate that the Aerotrain...
...professors, a brilliant and accomplished law teacher, resigned under pressure from the University authorities because he had failed to live up to the high ethical standards then demanded of Harvard teachers. What he had done was to make speeches throughout the Commonwealth in favor of the railroad side of a controversy, failing to reveal to the public that a railroad was paying him for making those speeches. There was no evidence that he had said anything that he did not believe or in any way misrepresented the law or the facts. His fault was in concealing his employment, thereby leading...
...sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars, went to work in a cotton mill when she was eight (she had been a midwife before that). At eleven, she left home to work in a beauty parlor...