Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico's rickety, government-owned railroads, which have averaged a wreck a week for the last six months, are responsible for almost as many jokes as the Toonerville Trolley. In a current vaudeville skit, the spurned lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev. Beating time with the warmth and expression of a railroad semaphore, he did his best, but the music floated drearily out into the happy din in a dull monochrome of sound...
...reason for this is that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad will be the first major line in the country to operate its trains on Daylight Saving Time. In other words, it will move all trains up an hour tomorrow and move them all back again next fall, instead of just reprinting the timetable in the normal manner...
...those who must leave the New Haven for connections with any other railroad, enormous troubles may arise, of which figuring out the right hand to look at on the new three-handed clocks is the smallest of worries...
...Boston and Albany and New Haven Railroads will schedule the same train at different times. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which operates certain of the New Haven's trains through to Washington, will have them leaving New York an hour before they have arrived. And people trying to make connections between the South and North Stations in Boston will presumably have to cross the city in a minus amount of time...