Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean officer-candidate school last fortnight, General Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo, looking around for more assault points, decided on the ripening military targets in and around Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. These included warehouses crammed with ammunition and other war gear, telephone, rubber and ammunition factories, railroad repair shops and marshaling yards, a motor pool, a Chinese communications center, a troop replacement area. Three weeks ago allied reconnaissance planes began dropping leaflets warning the people of Pyongyang to stay away from military installations. "United Nations forces cannot be responsible for your death," the leaflets said...
...some mistakes had been made. In their zeal to get at the helpless tigers, said the Peking People's Daily, party members had classified too many merchants as "half law-abiding," when they were entitled to a higher rating, to wit, "essentially law-abiding." South China's railroad system had broken down when the tiger hunters sacked its entire staff. So many businesses had been ruined that "trade outlets had lapsed into inactivity...
...sounds. And Fred (The Men) Zinnemann's direction wrings the last ounce of suspense from the scenario with a sure sense of timing and sharp, clean cutting. The picture builds from 10:40 a.m. to its high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout the action, Dimitri Tiomkin's plaintive High Noon Ballad sounds a recurring note of impending doom...
White didn't stay melancholy long. He ran the Virginian so well that he caught the eye of Manhattan bankers trying to unscramble the unwieldy Lackawanna Railroad, which is 8% owned by the New York Central. In 1941, Bill White went in as president to help them. He tackled the Lackawanna's finances with what he calls the "cut & fit method," consolidated its 18 separate companies into one, and by so doing trimmed its federal income-tax liability by 20%. With the help of World War II's boom, White piled up $32 million in profits...
Under White the Lackawanna, which is relatively small (28th in operating revenue), became one of the best-run U.S. railroads. Last week, 55-year-old Bill White got the chance to show what he can do with the huge New York Central Railroad, which picked him to succeed 66-year-old president Gustav Metzman, who is stepping upstairs to chairman. Said White of his promotion: "There are no great men; somebody quits, somebody dies, or you happen to be the right age....So much of it is luck...