Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Dior, "I was about to begin my real existence." He worked successively for Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong as a designer, a period interrupted by a year's service in the army in the south of France, where he mostly dug ditches on a railroad track gang...
...much as one foot for every three he covered, Bibbia was close to 70 m.p.h. He "scratched ice" as he negotiated the wicked 90° turns called Battledore and Shuttlecock, but only enough to slow his sled by a fraction. Toes up once more, he skittered under a railroad bridge past nasty little bends called Scylla and Charybdis. At the finish line he was traveling 90 m.p.h. Bibbia's time for the 1,320-yd. dive: a winning...
...swell the flow of oil to Europe, the Texas Railroad Commission last week finally ordered a big boost in allowable production. The decision added 210,901 bbl. to Texas daily output to a record 3,773,054 bbl. Behind the expected move (TIME, Feb. 18) was Ernest O. Thompson, senior member of the state's three-man commission, who insisted ever since the Suez Canal was closed that three small raises totaling 210,000 bbl. were the best contribution Texas could make...
What about the shortfall in oil shipments to Europe? To get an answer to the question, the House Commerce Committee heard General Ernest O. Thompson of the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls the production of Texas oil. On his flanks ranged virtually every important Texan in Washington, all well aware of how bad Texas has looked recently in the eyes of the world. On one side walked House Speaker Sam Rayburn, on the other Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Said Speaker Sam, lest anyone mistake Thompson's qualifications: "The general, in my humble opinion, knows more about oil than...
Ladd pointed out the need for trained cost analysts, saying that misjudgements can cost a railroad $1,000 a day. He continued that the railroads "should not be burdened with data prepared in standardized forms required by regulatory authorities...