Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow, Idaho is a pleasant, placid town in the middle of rolling, prospering farmland. There are 14 churches and a red brick railroad depot in Moscow, and the four-story Elk's Club is the tallest building in town. Local products are dried peas (nearly all the world's supply is produced in the area) and students (nearly a third of the town's 10,593 residents are students at the University of Idaho). Nobody really knows how Moscow got its name (it was possibly a gesture of sympathy toward Russia during the Crimean War), and hardly...
Girls & Fines. Split into small groups, the students burst in on another movie and disrupted the show. Some marched on the railroad station, shoved lustily at a car or two and managed to toot a train whistle before they moved on. Others made loud threats to spring Hammond and Wright, who had been locked up at Borough Hall. Toward midnight, the storm center of the riot swirled through town, blew over every garbage can in sight, then settled on Westminster Choir College a mile away...
Working on the Railroad...
...until 1906, when he was 40, did Artist Leigh go West. He did it then by persuading the Santa Fe Railroad to give him a free ticket in return for a painting of the Grand Canyon. The company ordered five more Grand Canyon pictures on the strength of the first, and between his Can yon commissions, Leigh roamed the vast, raw, neighboring country on horseback, sketching as he went...
...what food eaten at given hours (e.g., "8 a.m. No breakfast. Take glass cool water. Walk to work. Identify the birds . . ."). Others included an apparatus for sluicing "pure Macfadden air" over the skins of fully dressed businessmen while they sat working at their desks, and a narrow-gauge railroad with open flatcars for the use of customers in department stores. ("It will revolutionize Macy's," said Bernarr. "Then Gimbels.") Most staggering of all, though never completed or put to use, was the mammoth freezer into which the unemployed were to be put in times of depression "and defrosted when...