Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lunt," the first tip-off to the pre-curtain speculator that this might not be the crisp nonsense he expects. Then the curtain goes up and it is clear that Mr. Coward and Mr. Lunt are equally dubious about this Diensen fellow. Diensen, it turns out, is a Minnesota railroad baron who, by the author's admission, doesn't fit into the life of either Boston or Belgrave Square. Diensen doesn't seem at home on the stage of the Colonial either...
These is little more to Quadrille. The wrong couples rightly get together at the end and depart for the railroad as a string quintet in the pit breaks into action...
...William White, 57, who was ousted as president of the New York Central by Financier Robert R. Young, in the hottest railroad battle of the year, was elected president of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corp. (793 miles of track stretching from Wilkes-Barre to Montreal), to succeed Joseph H. Nuelle, who voluntarily moved up to board chairman. White was also made president of the road's parent firm, the Delaware & Hudson Co., which controls the Hudson Coal Co., a leading anthracite producer. His new salary: about $90,000 a year, v. $120,000 at the Central. In the 1940s...
Deep in the Williston Basin at Mandan, N. Dak. last week, Standard Oil of Indiana started production at the basin's first oil refinery, a $30 million giant that was as welcome to North Dakota as the first railroad. At capacity, Standard Oil's refinery will crack 30,000 bbls. of crude oil a day, give the Williston Basin its first local outlet for its oil. Though the basin holds one of the biggest oil pools in the U.S., its development has been hampered by lack of means to get the oil to market. The 445 wells already...
There are those about us who are participating in this project: for example, the Boston & Albany Railroad, local trains on the Boston & Maine, and the sovereign towns of Bellows Falls, Bennington, Brattleboro, and Rutland (all in Vermont). Standing against A.S.T. are the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including local services; the Central Vermont Railroad, including trains to and through certain enclaves; all airlines; and the United States mails...