Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan from a Jewish friend and bought a round-trip ticket to save money...
...triple-threat leaves of poison ivy sprouted furiously over most of the U.S., Ayerst Laboratories began distributing a protective cream, Kerodex, which has saved gangs of railroad section workers from the itch. For both prevention and treatment of ivy poisoning, the National Lead Co. was boosting Zotox, in which an oxide of the wonder metal zirconium neutralizes the irritating factor urushiol...
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD, in bankruptcy for 21 years, may finally get out. After opposing five different reorganization plans, Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. finally okayed a compromise worked out by MoPac Trustee Guy A. Thompson. Alleghany, which owns almost half of the old common, would get 5% or 10% of the road's voting stock under the new plan, depending on what ICC decides...
...James M. Symes, 56, who started railroading as a train master's clerk, was elected president and chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Railroading has taken him to almost every town and branch line on the system: one year he spent 200 nights on sleepers. The son of a baggage master, Symes (rhymes with hymns) grew up near the tracks in his native Glen Osborne, Pa., got a job at 18 on the Pennsy. From clerk he was soon promoted to car tracer, to statistician in Cleveland, to freight movement director in Pittsburgh, to passenger superintendent in Chicago...
...Then, to his horror, the agency gives him his own child. For a while poor Augie sees himself cast as a tragic Greek hero being buffeted by Fate, but a surprise ending enables him to become a normal, happy commuter buffeted only by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad...