Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government and transportation expert, has been appointed as a consultant to Patrick B. McGinnis, President of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, McGinnis announced yesterday...
Poggioli's early life was simple enough. The son of a railroad administrator in Florence, Italy, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florence, where he specialized in Russian literature. On the side he did free-lance work as a translator and critic. In 1935, he married Renata Nordio, a classmate of his at Florence and a student of Spanish literature. But by that time Mussolini was already in power, and the intellectual atmosphere was getting somewhat unhealthy. In 1938 he won a Litt. D. from the University of Rome, but it was Munich time in Germany...
...Your article was a very good account of life in that part of Russia. I should know; I was there in 1940-building the railroad to Vorkuta, by no means voluntarily, but as a prisoner of war having been captured by the Russians during the Russo-Polish...
...your Jan 31 picture of Robert R. Young climbing aboard a boxcar: Railroad Tycoon Young had best read his rule book on safety. He should use the grab irons on the side of the boxcar instead of on the end as shown in your picture...
What encouraged steelmen most was the fact that demand from other industries was still growing. Railroad carbuilding was picking up, with a corresponding upswing in orders for steel bars and plate. The booming construction industry was putting the pressure on producers of galvanized sheets, while appliance makers, striving to furnish the nation's new houses, were ordering enameling sheets for delivery months in the future. To stock the kitchen shelves, the canning industry boosted its orders for tin plate, with the seasonal high still to come...