Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucius Beebe, U.S. journalism's most rococo columnist, went digging for facts in Colorado, after his fashion. To mine material for another nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...
Fruits of Indigestion. Among its $20 million assets, W. & K. now owns hotels, apartments, a nightclub (Manhattan's glittering Monte Carlo), shipping piers, warehouses, a steamship company, shopping centers in Denver, Houston and Atlanta, a nine-mile railroad and a 2,300-acre oilfield in Louisiana (one well came in last fortnight from a depth of 10,000 ft.). To avoid pyramiding, each new permanent project has been financed independently...
...have been wondering how to get down to Princeton for Saturday's game after you have reached New York, you can stop worrying immediately. In a bulletin released yesterday, the Pennsylvania Railroad revealed that it had the solution all neatly arranged...
...benefit of those attending the Harvard-Princeton game Saturday," the railroad will run special coach trains from Pennsylvania Station to Princeton. Equipped with refreshment cars, and coach lunch service for hungry travelers, they will leave New York between 11:10 o'clock in the morning and 12:15 o'clock in the afternoon...
...were impressed on the trainees. One hopeless jackass got tortured and killed later on in the movie because he slipped up on this very detail. Ladd, however, doesn't make any mistakes, and is the one member of the team "Applejack," sent to France to destroy a key railroad tunnel and to pick up sundry vital information, who comes out alive...