Word: railroader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said Darby, who has visited just about every state in the Union on presidential tours: "I consider myself one of the country's foremost authorities on airports, railroad stations, hotel lobbies and auditoriums. It will be nice to learn what surrounds these things in the Midwestern states...
...cafes were British, American, Belgian, German-but not French. The locals had left the city to the invaders. In August, France is "en vacances." The Lemmings. In France in August, whole industries (automobiles, steel) shut down, whole streets are shuttered, in a migration as inexorable as lemmings. Railroad stations are loud with the shrill confusion that only the French can produce, each family laden with an amount of baggage that would stagger a Sherpa-packing cases, bicycles, scooters, cooking stoves, tents, valises, net bags, fishing tackle, steamer trunks, camping equipment...
...RAILROADS will have one of their best years since World War II. First-half earnings for 126 Class I roads are up nearly 80%, totaling $416 million v. $232 million for the same period in 1954. Prime example: the Union Pacific Railroad, whose first-half net of $35.5 million is the highest in history, some 16% higher than the previous record...
...seek fortunes in Wall Street and buried ruins in Honduras. Armed with a letter of introduction to Financier Jules Bache, Mike made tens of thousands on the Street and soon got close enough to the imperial J. P. Morgan to be able to inquire at a dinner party: "Railroad deal, Mr. Morgan? What's all this about?" Mike gleefully quotes a Morgan man on Adventurer Mike Hedges: "Goddamit, I never saw a youngster with such a brass neck." Moving on to Mexico, Mike Hedges fell afoul of Guerrilla Leader Pancho Villa, and-as he tells it-narrowly escaped execution...
...best of both worlds-Labor as well as Conservative. Even when Butler finished enunciating his anti-inflationary program last week, his government was still committed to a heavy program of capital expenditures, socially sound but inevitably inflationary (since they yielded no immediate production). Among them: $3.4 billion for railroad modernization over 15 years, housing at the rate of 300,000 homes yearly, some $400 million for road improvement, a vast program of rural school and hospital construction...