Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, they had taken visitors to the railroad station and said: "Now just watch." At 3:35 the Chief rolled in, at 3:40 the Super-Chief, and at 3:47 El Capitan slid in off the main line. There were three famous streamliners, all emitting compressed air, Hollywood producers and blondes wearing dark glasses. But after June 2, damn-it-all, the trains would come in separately...
...This course is establishing a much better relationship between labor and management," claims Richard S. Hamme of the United Transport Service Employees of America (C.I.O.). General chairman of the New Haven Railroad adjustment board, Hamme's home is Boston, and he is one of the few commuters enrolled this year...
Professor Cunningham became a lecturer on Railroad Operation in 1908. By 1915 he had risen to a full professorship in Transportation and the next year he received the James J. Hill chair in that field...
...Nose. Near Memphis, police heard a wheezy snore in the dark, ran it down, yanked Eddie Martin off the railroad tracks just before an express thundered...
Born near Moberly, Mo. (where a sign along the railroad proclaims: "Moberly, Home of General Omar Bradley"), he went to West Point, spent World War I in the U.S. and the 23 years afterwards studying for World War II, which was no surprise...