Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under normal circumstances, the engineman of the Pennsylvania Railroad's flyer Red Arrow has a clear track as his train roars through Philadelphia's famed Main Line suburbs on its run from Detroit. But as it came hurtling in toward the city at 7:30 one morning last week, complications developed up ahead; the Philadelphia-bound Pittsburgh Night Express-which was running 48 minutes late on the same track-had been stopped up ahead by a block signal near the station at Bryn Mawr...
Dereliction of Duty. White also clipped 20 examples of newspaper clichés and standard phrases out of six Boston papers, sent his journalism students through a night bakery, a waiting room, a steel mill and a railroad station, to see how well the phrases were understood. Samples: bipartisan foreign policy, act of overt aggression, fusillade of shots, dereliction of duty, titular head of the party, diplomat without portfolio, deficit spending, eschewing presidential ambitions, policy of containment. The average reader got nearly half the phrases wrong. Even "bipartisan foreign policy" had hard going; some of those questioned thought it meant...
...history of Harvard investment follows the economic pattern of a developing America. Harvard grew up with the country and helped it grow. When its investment in the Middlesex Canal had to be written off as a "Doubtful and Desparate Debt" because a newfangled steam railroad took all the business, Harvard moved fast to keep up with the changing times. It bought railroad bonds. As the New England textile industry grew up in its backyard, it saw another opportunity: such big companies as Pacific
...John Budd, son of longtime (1919-32) Great Northern President Ralph Budd, became the second youngest president of a major U.S. railroad.* During summer vacations from Yale Budd worked on a survey gang for the road, became assistant to the Great Northern's chief electrical engineer on graduation in 1930, and in 1940 (long after his father had left the road to head the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) became a division head in Oregon...
...Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co. (arc welding) is building a new $8,500,000 plant with two miles of overhead "railroad," eliminating all manual handling of material. In mockup tests, President James F. Lincoln has found a saving of 10% in direct labor costs...