Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their repair. "Sheer chicanery," snapped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who recognized the new Red pressure for what it was: an attempt at revenge for the decision to rearm West Germany. Adenauer ordered 18 new trains to be put on the Berlin run (so far, the Reds have not interfered with railroad traffic). West Berlin set up a special fund of $250,000 to pay the truckers' extra tolls...
...RAILROAD-GOUGING complaint by the Government, charging that 700 U.S. roads overcharged the U.S. as much as $3 billion for military shipments during World War II, has been thrown out by a unanimous ruling of the eleven-man Interstate Commerce Commission. The ICC ruled that all rate agreements were legally made before authorized agencies and, further, that charges were actually considerably lower than comparable civilian rates at the time...
...money being wasted? Last week the Hoover commission's report, based on the findings of its task force on transportation, announced that at least $150 million a year is wasted. Furthermore, the 17-man group, headed by Perry M. Shoemaker, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, said that the Government should stop competing with private shippers. Some "horrible'' examples of waste...
...industry was there in force to back FPC's position. Federal regulation will bring on short supplies, warned Ernest Thompson, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission (which enforces conservation of Texas' underground oil and gas). Rather than accept a money-losing, Government-fixed price, gasmen may refuse to export their gas out of the state, said Thompson. Already, federal control has brought on a sharp drop in prospecting for gas, said Standard Oil (Indiana) Economist John Boatwright...
...homey situations, Clark spends hours watching people at soda fountains, listening to women talk on buses, sitting in railroad stations ("The benches are just the right distance apart for watching people"). Much of the time he carries his Leica, snaps hundreds of pictures of street scenes, gestures, buildings and expressions, files them all away for the time when he will need to make a background authentic. Other ideas also come from watching Elise, his wife (and childhood sweetheart), their pretty, brunette daughter Joyce, 22, and nine-year-old son George Jr. All bear strong resemblances to their cartoon counterparts. Another...