Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddest gandy-dancer on the railroads in Manitoba during the summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock, who owned a resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become...
Pelting Bricks. By morning Usak was jammed with Democratic toughs rushed into the city by truck from neighboring towns. They rioted through the streets, beating up newsmen and breaking photographers' cameras. On his way to the, railroad station, Inonu found the street blocked by a solid wall of opposition Democratic toughs. He insisted on walking through them, and as he approached, Turkey's old hero shouted: "Aren't you ashamed?" The answer was a barrage of stones. Struck on the head, Inonu was knocked down but, struggling bloodily to his feet, grimly continued his march through...
Monitors. In Jacksonville, Fla., three men broke into a railroad boxcar, stole five television sets and a case of coffee...
...mark its 125th birthday this year, the Long Island Rail Road, busiest U.S. commuter line, decided to spruce up its grimy face and its public image. Last week the railroad's coaches sported the latest evidence of its campaign: a gay new insignia to replace the drab, 100-year-old L.I. in a circle. The insignia: a red, yellow and blue emblem showing a harried commuter rushing to catch a train, eyes glued to his watch and hand gripping a briefcase and umbrella. The new insignia for "The Route of the Dashing Commuter," is designed to humanize the Long...
Such improvements are part of a $65 million rehabilitation program. The road, now in the black after years of heavy losses, considers the commuter a valued customer-in contrast to many railroads (e.g., the New Haven and the N.Y. Central) that treat him as an unnecessary evil. The Long Island has repainted 140 of its 160 stations, 75 of them in colors selected by the commuters who use them, has modernized hundreds of its coaches. For the road, which once stirred only wrath from commuters, the program has caused "an impressive improvement in relations between the railroad and its riders...