Word: railroadman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive at solutions in advance-like...
...travel revolution," editorialized the Montreal Star. "A stab in the back," groaned a U.S. airline official. "A death blow," conceded one Canadian railroadman. All were reacting in their own way to the announcement by Trans-Canada Air Lines and Canadian Pacific Air Lines that starting Jan. 2 all fares on continental flights of more than 600 miles will be slashed up to 25%. No longer, said the Star, would air travel in Canada be "considered the prerogative of the rich, the daring, or those on emergency missions...
Died. Charles Homer Buford, 74, a railroadman for 43 years and president of the Milwaukee Road from 1947 to 1950, who for nine days in 1946 became czar of all 337 U.S. rail carriers on order of President Truman, who attempted to prevent a strike by seizing the lines; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
...force the Central and C. & O. to talk compromise terms with one another. Railroadmen felt that the two competitors might not really be very far apart: Perlman's publicly stated aim is a three-way merger of the Central, C. & O. and B. & O., and more than one railroadman believes that is exactly what the C. & O.'s canny president, Walter J. Tuohy, is ultimately after...
...Whatever your income, save some of it," said lean, frugal Charles E. Stillings, 81. It seemed a nice homily from an old retired railroadman who lives in a shabby hotel room overlooking the New Haven train tracks at Stamford, Conn. His own income, during all his years as foreman of the New Haven Railroad's power plant at nearby Cos Cob, never reached $100 a week. But laconic Bachelor Stillings practiced just what he preached. He put most of his savings in blue chip common stocks-and held...