Word: railroader
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Paralyzing Pygmies. As the Martian invasion of France proceeded, the invaders became more bizarre. A troup of pygmies in plastic helmets gamboled down a railroad track near Quarouble and transfixed M. Marius Dewilde with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-striped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleonlike, from yellow to green...
...Chicago & Southern Air Lines in 1934. When C. & S. merged with Delta last year, Putnam tangled with Delta President C. E. Woolman over the lower-echelon jobs given C. & S. executives. ¶ Gale B. ("Gus") Aydelott, 40, became vice president and general manager of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, as such will be the line's top operating boss. He succeeds K. L. Moriarty, who went to work for New York Central President A. E. Perlman, formerly executive vice president of the D. & R. G. W. Starting as a D. & R. G. W. gang laborer in 1936, Aydelott...
This Property Is Condemned, first of the three works, poses a difficult problem of interpretation which Director Colgate Salsbury fails to solve. Williams probably intended to give this sketch an ethereal quality. Yet the conversation between two young misfits, as they walk along the tracks of a Mississippi railroad, lends itself to this treatment only at the risk of becoming overly romantic. Instead, the Workshop performs it with chatty overtones, emphasizing the juvenile character of the leads...
...miles southwest of London, called Burrows Lea, which is known to his followers as "The Sanctuary." Here he grants audience to the ailing on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays: They drive up from all over, in Austins. Rolls-Royces, and by the special bus that he sends to the railroad station to meet the train from London. They wait for their appointments amid sweet-smelling flowers and chirping parakeets, then are welcomed by the eager healer himself in a large, paneled room with a white crucifix on a table...
...FREE RAILROAD PASSES for employees of other railroads are being canceled by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It expects officials and employees of all other lines to pay cash for business trips (it will still issue emergency and vacation passes) from now on, says that it expects to do likewise. Reason: since Pennsy trains run where everybody wants to go (New York, Washington, Chicago), Pennsy feels that the preponderance of benefits has been on the other side...