Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleepy corn-and-cotton hamlet of Coyolito, near El Salvador's Pacific coast, last week's big soccer match promised special excitement. Aside from their sporting rivalry, Captain Jesus Rivera of the local sport club and Ricardo Ayala, captain of a team of workmen from the nearby railroad, were mortal enemies in private life. When they trotted onto the field, both were wearing unusual football equipment: long-barreled pistols...
...bootleggers who sold illicit liquor to passing trappers. Then, with little fanfare, Campbell Chibougamau Mines Ltd. in 1952 sewed up a U.S. Government contract for its output, the next year started to sink a shaft. Last year it went into production, hauling concentrates laboriously by truck to the railroad at St. Felicien, 125 miles to the southeast. With a world shortage driving copper prices towards records (last week's U.S. price: about 40? a lb.), other companies holding long-neglected Chibougamau claims decided to have a closer look...
...RAILROAD STATIONS, from whistle stops to major terminals, e.g., Toledo, will be sold or leased by New York Central in unprecedented move to cut passenger deficits ($38 million last year). Central will then rent back the space it wants and needs, leaving rest for use by new owners and lessees. Not included in the offer of 406 stations: Manhattan's Grand Central terminal, which loses $24 million yearly...
...gold-plated and mink-trimmed whatnots are only the smallest part of the luxury market. To U.S. economists, the amazing fact about the new luxury market is the broadening and democratization of both the market and the luxuries themselves. Gone are the days when luxury meant a private railroad car, a steam yacht, a Newport château. From an emphasis on the ostentatious things that go with ceremony, luxury has focused on the convenient gadgets that make life easy for the many...
...coaster at Playland Park: another is within No. 7-iron distance (125 yds.) of the South Main Golf Center driving range. Two more wells have been drilled in the path of a proposed $20 million freeway, which probably will be rerouted. Worried Harris County officials have urged the Texas Railroad Commission to deny future oil permits on freeway land...