Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Central done since Robert R. Young took over six months ago? Last week Chairman Young and President Alfred Perlman called reporters into the railroad's luxurious board room in Manhattan to give the answer. With his usual hyperbole, Young summed up: "Al Perlman has performed a miracle. It will go down as one of the great executive accomplishments in history...
...born a Congregationalist, became a practicing Roman Catholic, now apparently does not go to church). The city room of the Kansas City Star saw him fresh out of high school and itchy for excitement. He left after only seven months of covering "the short-stop run" -police, railroad station, hospital. He lied about his age (18) to join the Red Cross ambulance service. Soon, postcards came back from the Italian front. "Having a wonderful time," they said...
...case, the watches were bought for $3.50, the original brand name was erased with acid, and "Bulov 17" stamped on in ink. The watch looked like the real Bulova 23 model, which retails for $95. The fakes were sold to street hawkers, who sold them at bus depots and railroad stations for up to $23 each. Chief victims: service men in transit. At week's end Furie was charged with counterfeiting a trademark (maximum sentence: one year), let out on $500 bail...
These companies produce three out of every four automobiles and trucks made in this country; ship about seven-eights of all the finished steel; produce three-quarters of all the electric power generated; handle more than 90 per cent of all the railroad traffic; fly nine out of ten domestic revenue passenger miles; and refine 90 per cent of all the oil produced...
...turn of the century, a student had to make a political choice, or forego ambition. Figuring that the Czars were about washed up, Andrei chose the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. In the abortive 1905 revolution, Vishinsky was arrested along with a bunch of railroad strikers and did time in a Czarist prison...