Word: railroader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wrong Combination. In Syracuse, N.Y., ex-Convict Russell Bryant, 51, was unable to force a railroad-office strongbox, spent $31 in taxicab fares hauling it around to friends who also failed to open it, in disgust tossed it into the Seneca River, learned to his dismay after being arrested and sentenced to 20 years that it contained $13 in postage stamps and 44 pencils...
...showing off a gorgeous bull mastiff, came India's Jawaharlal Nehru. After several days of such festivity, the Marshal decided that he should also demonstrate that he was a Socialist man of the people. Tito thereupon upset New Delhi's snob-laden society by inviting red-turbaned railroad porters to a diplomatic reception. "You have seen all my uniforms," joshed
...bids a doctor hold as "holy secrets" anything that he learns in his practice, is not binding when disclosure might prevent harm or danger' to others, wrote Surgeon Edward Clifton Dawson in the British Medical Journal. A big majority of polled doctors and laymen agreed that if a railroad engineer suffers from epilepsy but refuses to tell his employers, the doctor should do so. The margin was much narrower in favor of his telling the police the name of an abortionist that he had learned from a patient...
...last week, the weather was fair and clear, but on television it snowed steadily. To TVmen, a Christmas without snow would be nearly as bad as one without mistletoe, carols, or Santa Clauses. In Manhattan alone, the four networks used enough artificial snowflakes to fill three railroad boxcars. After each winter scene, the snow was carefully swept up (it can cause serious trouble if it gets into TV cameras) and sometimes used again on the next program...
Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 78, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fred Harvey, Inc., mid-and-far-western restaurant and hotel chain; of an intestinal blockage; in Chicago. Born the year his father opened the first Harvey restaurant at the Santa Fe Railroad station in Topeka, Kans., Byron Harvey grew up with the chain, watched it flourish as his father staffed it with the best-looking waitresses he could find. He succeeded to the presidency himself in 1928, in 26 years tripled the volume of business, served 30 million meals a year in Harvey restaurants, hotels...