Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others sided with H. W. Eiser, who called work here "very much tougher" than his job of superintending transportation for United Gas Corp. Theodore I. Marine of the Pennsylvania Railroad, admitted "It would be somewhat of a relief to have a job I'm accustomed...
...poor farmer of mixed blood, he was born in 1901, while his country was still under U.S. occupation, at the eastern sugar town of Banes. Quitting Banes' Quaker School at twelve, he worked as a tailor's apprentice, bartender, barber, banana picker, cane cutter and railroad hand. At 20 he joined the Army. To other soldiers, he was virtually a literary type: there was always a book or magazine under the pillow of his bunk. When he got the chance, he studied shorthand and became a sergeant-stenographer, handling secret papers, working with high officers, traveling around...
...miles) Toledo, Peoria & Western has made lots of news, most of it bad. Long known by such names as the "Tired, Poor & Weary," the T.P. & W. was twice thrown into receivership, three times sold at auction, and has to its debit one of the nation's worst railroad disasters (81 killed). After World War II, a long and bitter strike resulted in the shotgun killing of two strikers (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946). In 1947, T.P. & W.'s anti-union President George McNear Jr. was himself killed by a shotgun blast in a still unsolved murder...
...last week T.P. & W.'s President John Russel Coulter, 52, who took over soon after McNear's death, reported some good news-about the best in the little railroad's unhappy career. From a $3,600,000 deficit four years ago, he had pulled T.P. & W.'s net up to $742,000 in 1951, paid out $825,000 in dividends and more than, $2,000,000 in income, inheritance and other taxes. At the news, McNear estate executors decided that their job was done. They voted to turn over the railroad to estate trustees...
...work force swelled to 600, and morale improved so much that the T.P. & W.'s employees were the only railroaders in Illinois who did not walk out on the "sickness" strike last year. Now entirely dieselized with 15 new locomotives, the T.P. & W. has one of the best transportation ratios (cost to gross revenue) in the U.S.; last year it was 22% v. a 36% national average. T.P. & W. also gets more freight mileage out of its diesels (11,000 miles apiece per month) than almost every other railroad. Once-scornful railroaders have a new description of the Tired...