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Word: railroader (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devout perform their religious ablutions in the muddy water of the Hooghly. The bazaars are choked with wandering fiddlers, fortunetellers, cloth merchants, naked children, sidewalk barbers; every third man has fountain pens for sale. In their thousands, the always-hungry poor lie down on their hard beds on pavement, railroad platforms, under bridges. Some of them will not rise in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: PACKED & PESTILENTIAL TOWN | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...Oriental slant to their Western vision. Now a major new artistic talent, who arrived at the East-West meeting point by a different route, has appeared among them. The newcomer: patient and painfully modest Paul Horiuchi, 52, a Japanese-born American who for years made his living as a railroad foreman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: East-West Equipoise | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife and two sons, wandered for a year before he got a job as a railroad car inspector. "But somehow I paint," he recalls. "It was the only thing that keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: East-West Equipoise | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

RANDOLPH PHILLIPS, the rebel stockholder who waged proxy battle for seat on board of Pennsylvania Railroad (TIME, May 26), failed. He got only 70% of votes needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Divorced. George Vanderbilt, 43, great-great-grandson of Railroad Tycoon Cornelius ("Commodore") Vanderbilt, sportsman, big game hunter; by Anita Zabala Howard Vanderbilt, 53, onetime wife of Sportsman Lindsay Howard; after nearly twelve years of marriage, no children; in Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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