Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Switching Trains. In 1953 Senator Collins' close friend, Governor Dan Mc-Carty, died in office. Under the state constitution, he was succeeded by the President of the Senate, one Charley Johns, a former railroad conductor, who as a legislator had voted to put the brakes on improving educational standards and against a law to unmask the Ku Klux Klan. Roy Collins ran against Johns for the final unexpired two years of McCarty's term. Collins took his stand against what he called the "muster of the vultures." Despite Johns's lavish promises of road construction projects...
Hundred Proof. A West Side Chicago machinist's son, Ed Lahey went to work at 14 as an office boy, later was a shipping clerk, hod carrier and railroad yard clerk before he landed his first newspaper job in 1927, on the now defunct Glen Ellyn, Ill. weekly Beacon. Two years later, after reporting stints with the East St. Louis Journal and the Associated Press, Lahey was hired by the Chicago Daily News, "the only paper I ever wanted to work...
...supplement his $2,000-a-year salary, he had to work part time as a professional plumber. But even as he wiped joints, his mind seemed always on one thing. In those days, Albuquerque was a railroad town with only five schools, and most people thought it might stay that...
...RAILROAD DEAL between the St Louis-San Francisco Railroad and the Central of Georgia is finally in the works after about two years of effort by Frisco President Clark Hungerford. For more than $15 milhon Frisco has bought 239,709 shares of Central stock (47% of the total), is filing application with the ICC for permission to buy control of Central making a new system stretching 7,000 miles from the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast. The two roads will be operated as separate divisions under their current managements, have a combined value of nearly $500 million...
...want is a new, almost fully automatic traffic system to control every plane in the sky with electronic precision. Operating with radar, to find the planes and compute their positions at all times, the system would be able to handle all traffic at all altitudes, almost exactly like the railroad block system controls trains. About 85% of all plane movements would be handled by automatic signals from ground equipment; pilots would be told exactly where and when to let down for a landing, be unerringly guided through a slalom of checkpoints well clear of other planes. The equipment would take...