Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (English major) and from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Four years ago he moved to Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, where he wrote a novel (one of three, all unpublished), worked as a switchman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and preached at a weekend church in Stinson Beach. After he was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), Delattre moved to Berkeley, where he helped develop a program on religion and contemporary culture at the University of California and formed some definite ideas about...
...from work is at best a fretful one. But nowhere is it more irritating than in New York City, into which about 370,000 commuters pour each weekday by train, bus and car. And nowhere is it more downright infuriating than on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, serving the nation's wealthiest commuter area, only a few years ago one of the best of all commuter lines-and now one of the very worst...
Last week, citing a survey prepared by the Railway Labor Executives' Association, H. E. Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, indicated just how far the New Haven has come under Alpert's presidency. Charging railroad lines in the New York area with deliberately providing bad service to drive commuters away and thereby end a money-losing operation, Gilbert delivered a devastating bill of particulars. Notably excepted was the Long Island Railroad, which has come from a commuter's nightmare to something close to a commuter's dream (TIME...
...suffer: the latest monthly figures show that no fewer than 243 New Haven commuter trains ran late in April (for that same month, only 54 Long Island trains were late). And that, by any possible standard, is a hell of a way to run a railroad...
Versatile aluminum is being tested, Alcoa announced last week, as a replacement for bronze bearings in the wheels of railroad cars; aluminum runs 20% cooler than bronze. A market for aluminum power-transmission towers is also developing...