Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska Railroad's general manager reported that its best-kept stretch of track was maintained by a section gang composed of eight Indian women...
...Henry S. Sturgis, vice president of the First National Bank of New York, chairman of the executive committee of the Erie Railroad and director of half a dozen corporations...
...last, in 1908, it was taken down from its place in Florence's church of Santa Croce. When the retreating Nazis demolished the city's ancient bridges and damaged its Uffizi Gallery and Santa Croce, San Ludovico stood serene in an abandoned railroad tunnel, waiting for peace, and justice...
LYNNE L. WHITE, 59, moved up from executive vice president to president of the N.Y., Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate). Groomed for the job by his predecessor and old friend, the late John W. Davin, White is an up-from-office-boy railroad veteran of 44 years, who had been vice president of three other roads before joining the Nickel Plate six months ago. In 1948, the Nickel Plate's first independent year after separation from the Chesapeake & Ohio, he helped President Davin pile up a gross of $109 million and net of $15 million, greatest...
Furthermore, one of the biggest drops in carloadings had been in coal, which provides the biggest single source of railroad freight (14%). Thus, the more oil-burning diesels the roads bought, the more they would cut their coal revenues...