Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Central Railroad Co. last week placed the year's biggest order for locomotives. They were all diesels-in of them, to cost $21,000,000. Thus, the New York Central marked the quiet revolution which has been going on in the Central-and many another U.S. railroad -since war's end. The revolt is against steam locomotives in favor of oil-burning diesels. Of the 1,176 locomotives which U.S. railroads had on order Dec. 1, only 33 were steam. The rest were diesels...
Homemade Fancies. Once there is added to these bewildering inconsistencies Shaw's homemade fads & fancies-his plumping for "eugenic breeding'' (which Bentley, with restraint born of love, euphemizes into "idealistic racism"), antivivisectionism, vegetarianism, the Bergsonian "Life Force"-the Shavian mind begins to look like a railroad baggage room, full of handsome luggage and old egg crates...
...Pullman Porter Fred Wright, 67, who went to work for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad as a water boy when he was twelve ("I had a can, and went through the cars hollering 'water!' "), was awarded a gold pin for 55 years' service. His favorite car is the Lightning. "I use to talk to that car during the depression when sometimes there wouldn't be a passenger on the whole trip. I'd say: 'Lightning, old girl, we got to do better.' And now we're doing lots better...
...Williams had tried just about everything - cowpuncher, railroad fireman, mule skinner, tattooer, prize fighter, machinist. None of these tries had brought him much of a living. In his spare time in smelly bunkhouses, roundhouses and ma chine shops, he had even drawn cartoons. One day he sent N.E.A. a drawing of a fire chief too fat to get out of his chair for an alarm. N.E.A. wired him from Cleveland to come in. When Williams got back home to Alliance, Ohio, he had a contract to draw cartoons...
This time Railroader Robert R. Young, who likes to dish it out, had to take it. In a report last week, Interstate Commerce Commission Examiner Charles Edward Boles thumbed down Young's plea to join the board of New York Central Railroad Co., and, in effect, control it by voting his 6% holding in Central stock...