Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving westward through Pennsylvania in The Federal, the private railroad car in which Woodrow Wilson rode to victory in 1912, he proclaimed out of the past that the Democrats had beaten the Republicans to social security, the minimum wage, federal aid to the farmer. Meanwhile, his managers had arranged for a national TV hookup so that he could reply to Eisenhower's speeches in Cleveland and Lexington. At Pittsburgh Stevenson stepped before the TV cameras for a speech billed as a "turning point" of the campaign, but his sharp thrusts at Eisenhower and the Republican social-welfare record were...
Coffee Helped. With help from borrowed Belgian experts, and an annual stipend of some $50,000 from Brussels, Bolle and his staff learned how to set up a budget and a social-security system, organize a school system and run a miniature railroad. Usually pinched for funds, Bolle conducted government business largely on a cash basis, selling the wood from his forests to Belgian mines for cash and paying cash in turn for the services of neighboring fire departments when trouble struck. Like all independent border states, Bolle's realm was a hotbed of smuggling, and a seized load...
Twenty-six years ago, in Tokyo's Central Railroad Station, a nationalist fanatic named Yoshiaki Sagoya shot Japan's liberal Premier, "Lion" Hamaguchi. Last week bull-necked Yoshiaki Sagoya was back doing business at his old stand. In protest at Prime Minister Ichiro Hato-yama's avowed intention of flying to Moscow to negotiate a World War II peace treaty with the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Sept. 24), Sagoya and the khaki-clad toughs of his "National Protection Society" staged a mock funeral service for the ailing, 73-year-old Premier. On top of an altar, flanked by artificial...
...export drive is hampered by Japan's limited railroad and trucking facilities. A million and a half tons of goods are now piled up at railroad sidings waiting shipment to docks. To break such bottlenecks and broaden its export base, Japan will import 1,300,000 tons of steel...
Chemin de Per. In Lisbon, after hushing up for years a 4:29 a.m. train that takes gamesters back to town every dawn from the gambling resort of Estoril, the Sociedade Estoril railroad decided to come clean, put it in the timetable...