Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the best of Da Costa's touches is the train scene: in a railroad car are nine traveling salesmen, some playing cards, others reading newspapers-the Wall Street Journal, selected by Da Costa as perfect for 1912 typography and makeup. During the long weeks of rehearsals, the salesmen, backed by a full orchestra, chanted an intricate number called Rock Island, passing phrases from one to the other in complex antiphony. As they spoke, the rhythms changed, grew faster and faster in time to the clackety-clack of the train...
...first time in 17 or 18 months, crude-oil stocks above ground are pretty much what they ought to be." So last week said Ernest O. Thompson, senior member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls 45% of U.S. output. Texas oilmen freely predicted that their monthly production schedules, limited in July to nine days, will soon be raised to ten or twelve days...
...good try at isolating the serious jazzman's special brand of musical thinking. Like most good jazzmen, The Horn had the stuff in his blood. He taught himself to play because nothing else seemed to him more worth learning. His mother took in washing; his father was a railroad hand who advised his son to get some kind of steady colored man's job that carried a sure weekly wage. But Edgar Pool could hear nothing but the music within him. So he played, badly at first, but doggedly, and at last The Horn became so good that...
...when he had no money was just as free with checks." All through the late 1860s, he had the money, shelled out as much as $241,000 at a session to get the legislation he and his associates wanted. Eventually, the Swepson-Littlefield interests floated their own bonds for railroad lines they never built. They snapped up land at distress sales, bought state-owned cotton at 33?. which they quickly sold on the open market at 47?. Littlefield branched out into Florida and became president of the Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad...
Ironically, Littlefield had just decided that he really wanted to run his honest-to-goodness railroad when all his loans began to slip their bonds. In the panic of '73, his empire fell. But before that his pal Swepson had disowned him and declared himself insolvent, although he subsequently died a millionaire, to be buried under the epitaph "Trusting in Jesus for Salvation." Little eld's great and good friend Mrs. Ann Cavarly, the wife of an associate, played the self-appointed blabbermouth before investigating committees, while Democratic journalists howled for the staunchly Republican general's head...