Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuauhtemoc; below are a plumed serpent (the god Quetzalcoatl) and various Indian types. Other walls are crowded with Mexican heroes, symbols of Indian deities and illustrations of Communications Ministry activities-railroad locomotives, bridges, telegraph lines...
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD, second biggest in New England (after the New Haven), will spend $11.2 million to revamp its passenger service, has ordered twelve diesels. a fleet of 55 high-speed, self-propelled stainless-steel commuter cars to be built by Philadelphia's Budd Co. Delivery date...
...m.p.h. of today's flyers. It weighs only one-third as much as current trains, requires only 40% as much fuel for the same speed, can be built at an estimated $1,300 a seat, v. $2,300 for present cars. The Midwest's Rock Island Railroad has already ordered one of the new trains from ACF for Christmas 1955 delivery...
...week levels this year, and the Commerce Department reported "modest improvement" in manufacturing since the first of the year. In May, for the first time in three months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index went up, thus averting a 1?-per-hour pay cut for a million railroad workers...
...BIGGEST HOLDING of railroad bonds, a $65 million block of Baltimore & Ohio, has been unloaded. Investment bankers Glore, Forgan & Co. took $60 million worth and the remaining $5,000,000 went to the B. & O. itself. On the RFC's complete deal with B. & O., which has cost the agency $210 million in various loans and carrying charges, the agency has now got back $179 million, for a technical loss of $31 million. However, RFC has also collected $69 million in interest on its loans to B. & O. over the years, thus actually winds up with a net profit...