Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early life to foreshadow this rise to his place behind the throne than there had been in Harry Truman's apprenticeship on the farm. They were both Missouri-bred, but there the resemblance ended. Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo...
...Santa Fe Railroad began daily service with its sleekest, fastest "gin rummy haven," the Super Chief. The train's new cars have radios and running ice water in every bedroom...
Comeback. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, once called "a bankrupt hunk of rusty junk," completed the painful climb to respectability (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). It declared a common stock dividend-its first in 67 years, its second since it was founded...
...Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, doing some election-year thinking about a presidential candidate, spoke out for the magazine Advertising Age: "There are 10,000 businessmen who would be a better President than any of the men now considered." The interviewer wanted to know if he included himself. Mr. Young nodded...
...projector, and later played the piano, in his father's small movie house. He also had a paper route and he played cornet in the Methodist Church orchestra. To pay his way through Rose Polytechnic Institute (in Terre Haute), he shoveled iron ore, laid track for a railroad, and later played semi-pro baseball Sundays and nights...