Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would also have been impossible without the splendid cooperation of many friends of TIME : airline executives and railroad officials - postmasters and mail carriers-newsstand distributors- printers in strange, far places-Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers all over the world...
Negro soldiers, entraining for overseas duty, paused to look at the patriotic poster spread across the wall of a railroad terminus. "What You Are Fighting For!" boomed the slogan under a sea of proud, anxious American faces. The Negroes "gave the eye-catching picture a swift glance and then snapped their heads away, almost as if by command." Every face on the poster was white...
After high school he tried for West Point, but his weak eyes cost him the appointment. He was a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank and rose to bookkeeper at $115 a month. Suddenly he returned to his father's farm, and stayed there for ten years. His mother, now 91, says he could plow the straightest row of corn she ever...
...Harry Truman's birthplace, Lamar, Mo., more than half the town's 3,000 citizens were waiting for him at the railroad tracks-local Republicans swore he drew more people than had attended Truman's notification ceremony. At week's end John Bricker moved into Michigan, with Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania ahead. He pressed on-belaboring Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder, crying out for a flood of votes to submerge the wicked works of the New Deal and to float anew the ark of Republicanism...
...breezy, cocksure Father, known to the thousands who read Chicken Every Sunday, has been blown up to book size. Daughter Rosemary admiringly reports how Father sought his pot of gold in the laundry business, a trolley-car line, a railroad, a bank, a dozen other get-rich-quick schemes. One of the few genuine high points is the story of the lady who reserved half the cellar when she rented her house, and went back to live in it during hard times...