Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blackboard of the village school a childish hand had written in big round letters: "Goodbye, dear school. Goodbye." Galphin Dunbar, 73, a descendant of the family originally granted the land around Ellenton by King George II two centuries ago, sat brooding on a baggage dolly in the railroad shed. "I'm gonna leave," he said, "but I don't know where I'm going. I ain't got much money. But it was a Dunbar that started this town, and it's fittin' that a Dunbar be the last to leave...
Said Prime Minister Nehru, looking over this "very impressive but very ugly iron city": "When I look upon this plant, 1 am filled with great exhilaration. I have a picture before my eyes of a new India coming into existence." He then lowered a red railroad signal and a gaily decorated locomotive chuffed away, pulling the first 14-car shipment of fertilizer...
...Karachi's Sind Observer, the whole matter was outrageous. The U.S., said the English-language paper, was helping Pakistan's railroads by sending more than $650,000 worth of neckties to dress up the road's uniformed employees. The country needed wheat, cried the Observer, not neckties. What the paper itself apparently needed was a sharper translator: the U.S. was sending wooden railroad ties, which in Pakistan are known only by the British name, "sleepers...
Albert John Klingel, Jr.; Dunster; Harvard Young Republicans; Free Enterprise Society President; Eisenhower for President Club Treasurer; Republican Open Forum; Harvard Railroad Club; PBH Blood Drive...
William M. Zeembik; Kirkland; House crew; Young Republican Club; Harvard Railroad Club, Vice President and Treasurer; House Committee; American Ass'n for Advancement of Science.Zsembik...