Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
Every Wednesday night, a chubby French biologist named Jean Rostand* sips a glass of cognac in a railroad cafe at Ville-d'Avray and plunges bravely but vainly into a village chess tournament. The rest of his week is spent in lonelier fun: a lifelong love affair with a house full of frogs and toads...
...collecting art, he casually bought a whole Spanish monastery one day. The 811-year-old building was dismantled and each statue and block of stone duly numbered. Then they were packed into 10,742 crates (made in a specially built sawmill) and sent 21 miles (on a specially built railroad) to a seaport, where freighters carried them to New York. Somehow Hearst never got around to playing with his new $500,000 building blocks. They sat in a Bronx warehouse until after his death last year, then were sold (for about $60,000) to a group of New York...
...already done with such other debtor companies as Lone Star Steel and Tennessee Central Railroad...
That evening Hornussers, families and brass bands marched, tired but proud, to the Bern railroad station. As the people of Bern cheered their country cousins, the electric trains, trailing music, rolled off among the Alps...