Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operations to meet it. A 17-plane airlift flying as many as 96 flights a day began lugging men and freight into the Ungava wilderness to lay out town sites, build power plants and dig ore pits. At a cost of more than 20 lives, a 357-mile private railroad was pushed across rivers and through mountains from Seven Islands northward to the mine sites...
...average, industry's second-quarter profits were running about 2% ahead of last year's high levels. Among the first 400 corporations to report, about half showed better earnings than in 1953. At the two extremes, the booming electric utility industry scored a 51% gain, but railroad profits were down 44%. Among the few railroads to show better results was the Minneapolis & St. Louis (six-month operating income up about $100,000), which was taken over by a new management in a proxy fight last spring (TIME, April...
Montgomery Ward Thorne seemed to have everything. He grew up with a $4,200 model railroad, a collection of guns, a speedboat and an Oldsmobile convertible. If he had reached his 21st birthday next October, he would have come into a fortune. His father, Gordon Thorne. a hard-drinking heir of a Montgomery Ward & Co. founder, had left his fourth wife and their son Monty $3,000,000 in trust. But Monty's life was full of unhappiness, and his death was full of horror...
...were still being made in many an industry. In the petroleum industry, sales have not come up to summer estimates. As a result of overproduction, wholesale gasoline prices skidded on the Gulf Coast and Eastern seaboard, and retail-gas wars were flaring up east of the Rockies. The Texas Railroad Commission (which controls the state's oil production) announced that it had cut August allowables to 2,721,104 barrels a day because of a drop in demand...
When Texans Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson bought 800,000 shares of New York Central Railroad stock last March, it did not look as if they would hang on to it very long. The deal gave them the right to sell half of it back to Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. and to Young's crony and financial angel, Allan Kirby, at the same price they had paid: $25 a share. Last week they did sell a big chunk of the stock. Richardson sold 200,000 shares to Kirby, thus repaying the $5,000,000 that Kirby...