Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian interpreters. Delays of delivery from Russia might indicate that Moscow is parceling out its supplies slowly to make sure that China does not grow too self-sufficient too fast. A likelier explanation is that Russia has some priority problems of its own, and that the Trans-Siberian Railroad is overburdened because of the Korean war and the U.N. blockade of China...
...Chamber of Commerce have been joined by the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Detroit Board of Commerce, the New England Council, the New York Board of Trade, New Orleans International House, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and by groups as diverse as the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the National Grange, League of Women Voters, and religious publications ranging from the Catholic Commonweal to the Methodist Christian Advocate...
...deficiencies seriously mar what otherwise would be an excellent report. Because of this, we hope that the Senior Fellows--as well as their new Chairman, the future President--will consider this as a Supreme Court Justice once considered a particular majority decision. This decision, he said, is like a railroad excursion ticket, good for today and today only. Yet this should not be the final word, for there is much that is good in the Corporation's handling of these cases. The extreme liberal may be outraged by the fact that Harvard, in a statement retaining a man who lied...
...Hoover, who couldn't make the football team but grew up to be director of the FBI; a how-to-do-it section on teaching your parakeet to talk ("When he trusts you, he will perch on your finger while you take him out of the cage"); "Railroad Whistle Talk," i.e., what the toots of a locomotive whistle mean; a secret code so that "you can send letters and notes that no one else will understand"; a problems column. (Send your answers to this question: "Your best friend agrees to trade one of his old toys...
Diet As You Ride. For dieting passengers, the Pennsylvania Railroad began serving a 470-calorie meal in its dining cars. The menu: tomato juice, two crackers, chopped sirloin, carrots, lettuce salad (with nonfattening dressing), half a grapefruit, tea or coffee with saccharin. Price...