Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome, excessively rugged individualist named George Plummer Mc-Near Jr. bought the bankrupt Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad for $130,000 down (price: $1,300,000). The road had one great asset-transcontinental freight trains used it to get around Chicago...
...short time, McNear was making money on his "two streaks of rust." Then he started battling labor unions. In 1929 he rode a cowcatcher through an engineers' picket line to break his first strike. In 1941, he took on the railroad brotherhoods again, rode out shootings and fires, finally refused Government arbitration and lost his road by seizure...
...there is no chance whatever for a man who destroys a chickcharney's home; so when young Chamberlain insisted on cutting down a certain tree to build a railroad across his farm, the wise Andros natives refused to do it. "Boss man, he lookin' for trouble," they said. Chamberlain hired a crew from Nassau and cut down the tree anyhow. Soon after, of course, his farm failed...
Then Churchill took over. "Now," said Mose, "we gwine win. Chickcharneys got no grudge dere." And with Chamberlain's abandoned railroad track melted down and sent to Britain for scrap, Mose's prediction proved entirely correct...
...pulp-western plot, decked out in flamboyant, operatic finery, is set in late 19th Century Texas. The evil old cattle baron (Lionel Barrymore) lives in a pretty ranch house with his good wife (Lillian Gish), one good son (Joseph Gotten) and one very bad son (Gregory Peck). When the railroad (civilization) tries to encroach on Barrymore's rangeland, all hell breaks loose in the form of rip-roaring gunplay, overheated histrionics, and the tattoo of hoofbeats across gorgeously tinted landscapes...