Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when King Louis the Fat picked out a quiet meadow on Paris' outskirts for the food marketeers. The meadow has long since been surrounded by the center of burgeoning Paris, but no one has been able to dislodge Les Halles, though it is two miles from the main railroad stations and set in a tortuous network of ancient streets barely passable by trucks. In the resulting jam, it takes a truck up to three hours to make the two miles from the Gare de Bercy, and the trucking charges for those two miles from station to market are higher...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co., headed by John M. Schiff, which originally specialized in railroad financing, and helped raise the cash to build the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads...
...senior year at Yale, Averell was elected a director of the Union Pacific Railroad, startled the austere board by showing up for a meeting with a psychology textbook under his arm. After he graduated from Yale (B.A., '13), he went to work for the Union Pacific in the offices and yards. Within two years he highballed past his fellow trackmen to become a vice president...
...Averell Harriman returned to his father's business: he became chair man of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad, and served in that post until 1946 (without a word being raised about conflicts of interest between the job and his position irt the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations...
FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE is finally forcing the railroads to step up car buying, but the steel shortage may delay deliveries until 1957. New York Central will embark on one of the biggest purchasing programs ever launched by a U.S. railroad. With orders already in for 3,200 cars costing some $23 million, Central will buy an additional 14,750 cars...