Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last March, two Texas amateur archaeologists. Advertising Man WTilson Crook Jr. and Railroad Engineer R. K. Harris, found a peculiar stone spear point in a patch of charcoal-blackened earth a few miles outside Dallas. Near it were bones of now extinct animals: camels, horses, an elephant...
Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
...shipping, American Export Lines profits increased more than tenfold to $3.1 million, thanks largely to increases in cargo volumes, freight rates., postwar Government subsidies. Pennsylvania Railroad's $22.2 million net was its best first half, although high operating expenses caused June returns to slack...
Career & Record: The FBI waived its minimum age requirement (23) to make him an agent at 22, a year later he resigned to join the Army as a private, drew only stateside training duty, was discharged a first lieutenant in 1946. Appointed chief counsel, Tennessee Railroad and Public Utilities Commission at 26, successfully fought attempts to raise cost of phone service in Tennessee and later in Georgia. Recalled to the Army in 1950, went off promising that he would run for governor in 1952. He did, became the youngest governor in the U.S. by defeating Gordon W. Browning...
LONG-DISTANCE TRAINS will be all but extinct in two decades, says Donald J. Russell, president of Southern Pacific Co., second longest (12,435 miles operated in 1955) U.S. railroad. Reason, says Russell, who also predicts end of Pullman cars, is jet airliners, which will soon be capable of 1,000 m.p.h. speed...