Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only answer for the G.N.R. The next question was how, since Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic were scarcely on speaking terms. For two years, while the argument raged, the money-losing Great Northern chugged on under private ownership. Last week agreement was reached to put the railroad under joint ownership of the two separate nations. "Funny, when you come to think of it," said a philosophical G.N.R. worker. "We'll be doubly nationalized. It could only happen in Ireland...
...Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 .p.m., NBC). Gordon MacRae and Dorothy Warenskjold in Hope Is a Woman...
...Frank E. Kalbaugh, 52, superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad's Salt Lake Division, was named manager of the recently rehabilitated and overhauled Alaska Railroad, the only major road owned and operated by the Interior Department. Longtime Railroader Kalbaugh hopes to pump some life into the Alaska, which runs nearer the Arctic Circle than any other American road, and whose annual deficit ($585,000 last year) arrives as regularly as the spring thaw. Kalbaugh joined "So Pac" in 1919 as a clerk in the San Joaquin (Calif.) Division, worked his way up to superintendent of transportation in 1947, took...
...bulldozers last week completed the grading job for a village of 10,000 inhabitants. Contracts were signed for some nine miles of streets, curbs and sewers, and construction crews.were building a pumping station and a million-gallon water tank. Lincoln Village, a $30 million town planned from sidewalks to railroad sidings, was being born...
...community will be no secluded suburbia. It is located two miles west of Columbus, between U.S. Highway 40 and the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. General Motors already has a plant there, and Westinghouse is building one. The village will be built around a 20-acre civic center, with a school, library, churches, playground and wooded park. It will have apartment buildings, single homes priced from $9,000 to $16,000, and a shopping center. Before the town is completed (target date: 1959), Lincoln hopes to see other communities like it springing up all over the country...