Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since he became a member of the old Rivers & Harbors Committee in 1933, Michigan's Congressman George Anthony Dondero has championed the seaway. As Public Works Committee chairman, he steered the bill through the House this year despite continued opposition from Atlantic and Gulf ports and from the railroad interests. Two recent developments finally dispelled congressional timidity: 1) the steel industry's ever-growing dependence on Labrador ore, which could be cut off by enemy submarines as long as it must be shipped through East Coast ports, and 2) Canada's decision to build the seaway...
When the great, round shadow of the moon sweeps across the earth next June from Nebraska to India, its speed will be known accurately from astronomical data. It will be like a railroad train traveling at known speed past stations whose distances apart are not known as accurately. By pinpointing the train's time of arrival at each station, the distances between stations can be computed...
...Sica's use of the everyday drama of a railroad station--a pregnant woman and a traveling class from a deaf and dumb school--occasionally brightens the submerged conflict. It is a losing cause, however, for he has stretched one poignant incident past the breaking point into a full-length feature...
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD is joining the trend to piggyback truck trailers (TIME, Sept. 21). In June the Pennsy will put 90 special, truck-carrying flatcars into service between New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago. It has ordered 200 more for August delivery...
...when John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy told the American Physical Society: "We have spent billions on the Marshall Plan, and then alienate much of the resulting good will by an unsympathetically and woodenly administered visa policy. This situation reminds one of the railroad that lavishes a mint of money on new streamliners and then lets the conductor insult the passengers..."Shown above is part of the East Boston Detention Station for Immigrants, where new arrivals are held for questioning, if necessary, and deportees are kept pending their removal from the country. Main offices...