Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Town" (West Colorado Springs) was founded in 1859 by brawling goldseekers. At the town's first church service the minister found only one worshiper because everyone else was out hanging a Mexican horse thief. Later, however, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad decided to cash in on the area's magnificent scenery (Pike's Peak, Garden of the Gods, etc.) and climate (69° average in summer, 29° in winter), promoted a swank resort. So many young Englishmen came that Colorado Springs was called "Little Lunnon." Amidst the Rockies they played cricket and polo; one wrote...
...chief structural engineer, tested the amusement section's thrill-ride contraptions by taking the first spin on each. During World War II, he designed prefabricated Army barracks and portable airplane hangars. His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building at the Brookhaven National Laboratory...
...Uris Bros. (TIME, June 1, 1953), is getting a big addition. For $35 million, Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey bought the 24-story Pennsylvania Suburban Station Building, will build a four-or five-story transportation center nearby, topped by an eight-story tower for offices for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...RAILROAD COACH FARES cheaper than bus rates will be tried out by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad on the most heavily traveled section of its main line in Texas. Round-trip rates from San Antonio to Dallas will be cut from $13.20 to $8.80, v. the bus fare of $11.35. If a six-month trial works, the cut will be extended through the entire system, which has suffered a big drop in passenger revenues...
Rates will be further complicated by the fact that natural-gas production is also regulated by state bodies, such as the Texas Railroad Commission. While the FPC must set a ceiling on rates, the state agencies set a floor under them, in the interest of encouraging exploration and development of new fields and avoiding waste through overproduction. If floor and ceiling collide, the conflict may have to be ironed out in the courts again...