Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, on a chilly day last week, was an old sepia-toned photo come to life. In the background was "Old Abilene Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...
...with his wife-nurse-receptionist-bookkeeper. They were as busy as they could ever want to be. Go-getting Jimmy Carter had been equally busy since April, getting set for them. With Lions Club support, he formed the Plains Development Corp., raised $6,000, bought a site opposite the railroad station and adjoining the drugstore. Town labor cleared it. Carter drew plans to Dr. Sills's sketched outlines. Result: a 30-ft.-by-30-ft. concrete-block building, ready for early August occupancy, with offices for the doctor and his wife, waiting rooms (separate for whites and Negroes...
...nation's harried railroads, who hoped for a boost in booming 1959, the strike dealt a smashing blow. In 13 weeks the roads lost an estimated $459 million in gross revenues. Railroad employment on Sept. 30 fell to 797,195, the lowest since 1900. Third-quarter rail earnings, when they come out in the next several weeks, will not make pleasant reading...
Heavy Industry. In Montreal, Canadian National Railways filed suit for $30,265 against two men for taking up two miles of railroad track and selling it for scrap...
...sweat of our brow, or with our hands, could have it a little bit easier." In the thickening fog of oratorical battle, Labor hecklers twice howled down Tory Macmillan's attempts at street-corner speeches in Scotland and Yorkshire. And at Swansea, as Macmillan walked wearily toward a railroad station entrance after a seven-speech day, a woman bystander suddenly assailed him with a loud "Boo-oo-oo." Rounding on his tormentor, the Prime...