Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims for the independence of Puerto Rico. My life I give for the freedom of my country. This...
...after Young sold out his C. & O. interests to Eaton, Murchison paid Alleghany more than $4,000,000 for 24% of the voting stock in Investors Diversified Services, Inc., Minneapolis investment trust which Alleghany controls. Murchison also owns $7,000,000 in bonds of the Missouri Pacific, another railroad which Young is fighting to control...
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad is cutting its spending because of a sharp decrease in traffic. The line lost almost $3,500,000 in January, v. a profit of some $2,000,000 in January 1953. Orders have gone out to cut costs to the bone, stop work on a $6,000,000 station-renovation program...
Servants' Servants. Florida's new boom bears little resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers...
...company's high-cost northern mills (nine of which have already been closed down) and retire about $20 million of its preferred stock to cut dividend charges. They were opposed by a group of directors including Frederick C. ("Buck") Dumaine, 51, boss of the New Haven railroad. But Dumaine had only five votes on his side. Last week, in a surprise coup, the Dumaine faction won control of the board and apparent victory over the management plan...