Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gould III, 26, great-grandson of the late railroad tycoon, still had a wife. Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce, was refused a divorce by a Los Angeles judge who judged her complaints insufficient. Some of them: Husband Jay wouldn't let her dance or play tennis with anybody but him, didn't like her theatrical friends, demanded full-fashioned meals, and was too demonstrative in his public lovemaking...
Little businessmen along George P. McNear Jr.'s Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad were tired of the four-month strike on the road which had kept them from shipping grain, coal and steel. They were also mad enough four months later to do something about it. Nineteen shippers made up a $10,000 pool, used it to hire a smart lawyer. He went into Federal Court with a novel plea: the T. P. & W. (though highly solvent), was "physically bankrupt," so a receiver should be appointed to run the trains...
...College and Princeton Theological Seminary, thin-faced Pastor Smith had planned to work among miners. When the Presbyterian Board of National Missions offered him the Scotts Run post, he jumped at it. He took up residence in the "Shack," a long, narrow, white and green building sandwiched between the railroad tracks and State Highway...
...wake of the soft-coal and railroad strikes, and with the loggers' walkout drying up western Canada sources, many a daily and weekly was harder put to it for paper than during the war. The Los Angeles Times shrank one day last week to eight parres. In St. Louis, Dallas. Houston and a dozen other cities, paper-starved dailies went adless to stretch their dwindling hoards...
That time none got away from Campo 35. But there was another time at another place. After Italy surrendered, the Nazis moved Allied P.W.s by the carload into Germany. There at last Millar had his chance. With a friend, he made a break from a railroad train near Munich. They had laid careful plans: a roll of marks, suitable clothing, a nearby underground contact. At night the train guards were sleepy. The prisoners went into the lava-tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses...