Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edge and the railroad lobby are behind it!" shouted the mayor. "But don't be frightened . . . just pull the first five levers. Then they'll drag those damned machines out of here...
Beside the highway into Dachau there runs a spur line off the Munich railroad. Here a soldier stopped us and said: "I think you better take a look at these box-cars." The cars were filled with dead men. Most of them were naked. On their bony, emaciated backs and rumps were whip marks. Most of the cars were open-top cars like American coal cars. I walked along these cars and counted 39 of them which were filled with these dead. The smell was very heavy. I cannot estimate with any reasonable accuracy the number of dead...
...infinitely patient Isaac Burton Tigrett, 65, can get control of the bankrupt midwest Alton Railroad Co., as he was all set to do last week, he will have reached a goal he set for himself 34 years ago. Rail roader Tigrett's goal: to tie together a rail system reaching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes...
...standards set during the Harriman-Hill-Gould era, 34 years represents a long time to create a railroad empire. But Ike Tigrett was never in any great hurry...
Tigrett's bank grew slowly. But Tigrett's reputation as a man with a head for figures spread rapidly. When local capital ists rashly decided to build a 48-mile rail road, the Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad, they elected Tigrett treasurer, a position which incidentally included the job of raising the money to keep the rail road running. In 1911, he became president of the B. & N.W., soon was elected a director of a neighboring railroad, the struggling Gulf, Mobile & Northern Rail road Co. Eight years later, largely because nobody else was interested in managing the G.M. & N., Tigrett...