Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...import curbs is being cured. Oil imports were well under the quotas, and inventories of U.S. crude stocks were down to 279 million bbl. from 288 million last July, when import curbs were first applied. This was only 14 million bbl. more than companies reporting to the Texas Railroad Commission, a potent instrument of the domestic oil producers, recently set as desirable and normal operating stocks. During the next two months, Washington is expected to consider whether voluntary import quotas will be needed for the year beginning July 1 and, if so, how restrictive they need be. By acting...
...source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm. Opening with a jingly, jabbery railroad-car recitative of traveling salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making...
...filip from private collectors such as Johnny Allen, 47, a Manhattan film technician who rides his hobby fervidly. Allen keeps in touch with 260 collectors around the world (184 in the U.S.), says: "A collector will never divulge the names of other collectors." Many are specialists, collecting only railroad shots, Ernst Lubitsch film or Tom Mix reels. Among themselves, they swap film, rarely sell it. "When we need something," says Searcher McDonough, "we send out word to a couple of key people in this underground." The networks pay $2.50 a foot for collectors' film, though to get a sequence...
...directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad who helped Patrick B. McGinnis get control of the road in 1954 also have been cleaning out their holdings. Francis S. Levien said last week that he has sold all his 12,400 New Haven shares, while Harry E. Gould said that he shucked his 11,000 shares. The sale price: something under $7. Gould, who would not tell how much he had paid, took a substantial loss. Levien, who bought the stock in 1953 and 1954, said he paid about $25 a share for it, took a loss...
...story is set in the jungles of Thailand during World War II, where British prisoners, at forced labor, are building a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. At one prison camp along the way, the fanatical Japanese commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), is having trouble. The senior officer of a new consignment of prisoners, a prim old pukka sahib named