Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nationwide railroad strike did not go into effect because...
...Army announced a railroad strike at this time would defeat us in Korea...
Walter Chrysler, a topnotch railroad mechanic, had no idea how to drive. He hired a team of horses to haul the car home from the freight office in Oelwein, Iowa. But he spent three months taking it apart and putting it together again. By that time, he had a pretty good notion of how an automobile worked...
Walter Chrysler did not come altogether from the Horatio Alger mold. As a boy, he often sneaked off the job to smoke, drink beer and play cards. As a young railroad mechanic, he roamed from job to job, hitched rides on freight trains and occasionally panhandled when he was broke. But his curiosity about tools and machines was endless and his skill in using them not far from genius. After high school in Ellis, Kans., he started as a sweeper in the local railroad shop at 10? an hour. By the time he bought the Locomobile, he was superintendent...
Chrysler quit the railroad when its president gave him a needless bawling out over a hotbox. He hired on with the American Locomotive Co., and in less than two years, at 36, he became works manager of its Allegheny plant. Then one day in 1911 a man named Nash from Flint, Mich, offered him the job of running the Buick plant. It meant less money, but Chrysler had never got automobiles out of his mind; he accepted. He scrapped Buick's leisurely, carriage-maker methods, soon jacked production from 45 to 200 cars a day. The money took care...