Word: railroadman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spare time. He took them home, thinking they were Indian relics. His wife insisted that he get "that junk" out of the house. Dodd relegated them to the woodshed, but kept on talking about them. Eventually word of the find reached the ears of Curator Currelly, who asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late 10th or early 11th Centuries. He sent photographs of the sword, ax and shield fragments to Norse experts in Europe, who unanimously confirmed his opinion. Then he paid...
...RAILROADMAN-Chauncey Del French - Macmillan...
...Railroadman recalls the flavor of Casey Jones or The Wreck of the Old 97. It tells of railroading in the days before air brakes and automatic couplers-when there was no standard-gauge track; when engines were thrown into reverse to bring them to a sudden stop; when railroadmen were the true aristocrats of labor, with something of the prestige transport pilots have nowadays...
...were stalled at one station. His growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...
...first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...