Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania Railroad will run special trains out of New York every few minutes from 10:45 a.m. Saturday to 11:45. The trip to rah-rah land takes an hour...
...part-time postmaster, gets only $252 a year from the department. "Mostly I work on the railroad. Four of us shovel her clear in winter, and clear out any drift that comes down in summer. I get plenty of time to go fishin'. We don't have any officials, you might say. Depending on who's around, the depot master is mayor...
...husband for Wendell Willkie, they argued it out on the editorial page. Now there is no argument; both are for Dewey. She also broke with her father, editorially, on his isolationism. Newsday looks with favor on ECA, and, like its commuting readers, with impatience on the Long Island railroad...
Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...
...Dewey's opponent has little of the Governor's efficient manner. Under great tension, Mr. Truman has frequently made serious errors, such as his angry request to Congress for the power to draft striking railroad workers. His administration has not been smooth. But what Mr. Truman stands for in the way of domestic institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake. In January, 1946, the President asked Congress for minimum wage and full employment legislation...