Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Christmas list is long and your wallet thin, bus service is the answer. Greyhound and other standard bus lines serve, all major cities, and the trip can be made in relative comfort and with relative speed for less than half the cost of a railroad coach ticket. But drivers know their business, and even in holiday traffle they manage to stick close to tight schedules. For many thrifty easterners, this is the best...
George Silverman, formerly employed by the Railroad Retirement Board, and now reportedly in the War Department...
...drum up sales, Cravens sent 20 RFC salesmen out on the road and negotiated with investment banking houses to underwrite the sale of $65 million worth of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bonds. Cravens also hoped to get banks to form a national syndicate to take over most of the 4,327 business loans of less than $200,000, which would take too long to sell...
Almost two-thirds of RFC's assets are business loans totaling $664,500,000, and Cravens thinks that 90% of them are readily marketable. RFC also has some other blue chips which should be easy to sell: $85.9 million in railroad securities, $45.5 million in securities of banks and trust companies, and $67.1 million worth of home mortgages. But some other assets, including a $48 million loan to the Philippines, $42.3 million in obligations taken over from the defunct Defense Homes Corp., $18.3 million in disaster-relief loans, will probably be turned over to the Treasury with no attempt...
Headline Hunter. In Columbus, Ohio, indicted for arson, Railroad Employee Lawrence Pepper told officials that he set fire to 27 autos in ten days because "I like excitement and . . . like to read about...