Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progressive Convention at Philadelphia. Wallace did not notice it. Afterwards he said blandly: "I would say that the Communists are the closest things to the early Christian martyrs. But I can truthfully say that the Communists have not come to me, as such. I saw one hurriedly in a railroad station not long ago. I don't recall his name. I told him I believed in progressive capitalism. That stopped him and I haven't heard from the Communists since...
...over the U.S. the railroads' new dreamliners were performing the same notable trick. Since the war U.S. roads have put into service 1,529 new passenger cars, now run some no streamlined trains (more than 220, counting extra sections). Another $1 billion in new cars and trains has been ordered. The roads that lacked the cash to buy new cars slicked up their old ones. The Central Railroad of New Jersey fitted out four cars in different styles. It got its commuters to choose the style they liked, and is planning to redecorate all its cars to match...
Lithopolis, Ohio (pop. 300) hasn't changed much since stagecoaches to Columbus stopped there 75 years ago. The village has two restaurants, four churches and an undertaker-but no railroad station, bank or high school. Most Lithopolitans are in the farming or feed business. But Lithopolis has something most hamlets haven...
...railroads, which usually talk to the public in conservative full-page ads and statistics, last week tried it with whoop-de-do and the can can. To mark the 100th anniversary of the first train out of Chicago, some 37 railroads and 30 equipment makers chipped in $12 million to make their Railroad Fair the biggest since the New York World's Fair. They packed 50 acres of Chicago's lake shore with sideshows, pageants, new coaches and exhibits, including this iron horse, a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), first U.S. -built locomotive in regular...
...Coalman. Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young juggled his high command. To run the coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio while President Robert J. Bowman is on sick leave, the board named a coalman, Walter J. Tuohy, 47, as first vice president. A graduate of De Paul University, Tuohy was boss of Chicago's Globe Coal Co. when he joined the C. & O. in 1943 as vice president in charge of coal operations. Still unfilled was the vacancy left by Financial Vice President William H. Wenneman, who resigned because "too many [C. & O.] activities have been undertaken for the sole purpose...