Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill and Lannie were twelve, their parents, both born in slavery, moved the family to Arkansas. Bill did his farm chores under duress. All he really wanted to do was make music, and when he was 18, he headed for Chicago. He got a job on the Illinois Central Railroad, but he lived for evenings and weekends when he could hang out at the Moonglow or the 308 Club or one of the other wonderful, schizofrantic jazz joints that flourished in the Chicago of the '20s. Soon Big Bill was playing far and wide with the best of them...
...production for September was hiked to a twelve-day schedule by the Texas Railroad Commission, the third straight monthly increase in allowables since the eight-day month in June...
Like a mosquito at dusk, Manhattan Financial Consultant Randolph Phillips, 47, has driven many a big corporation to distraction with his stinging jabs at management control. His favorite target is railroads. Turning on his onetime associate, New York Central Railroad Chairman Robert R. Young, Phillips harried him so persistently through the courts that Young hardly dared go to Manhattan for months before his death because he feared Phillips' summonses. Last week Randy Phillips himself got swatted. He not only lost a court fight over his campaign to win a seat on the Pennsylvania Railroad's board but also...
...Work, Work, Work." Careerman Bob Murphy fell into the Foreign Service almost by accident. Born in Milwaukee on Oct. 28, 1894, he was the only son of an Irish-American steam fitter on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. He worked his way through school, held dozens of odd jobs, e.g., selling the Milwaukee Journal. By 1916 he had managed to get into Washington's George Washington University Law School. There, an old foot injury kept him out of World War I military service-so he applied for a civilian war job and wound up as a clerk...
...sort of migrant Middle Westerner, thanks to his father's job with the New York Central Railroad, which kept the family forever on the move, Jack Paar was born in Canton, Ohio on May 1, 1917. With time out for a stretch in Detroit, he did most of his growing up in Jackson, Mich. But wherever he went, his childhood memories are almost all somber ("I never had a childhood. I was born an old man"). When he was five, an older brother was killed by a car. All that comes back to Jack from his tenth year...