Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea is that you have to wear out shoe leather, too, to make an ad campaign successful." Out after the Republican mayoralty nomination, Longstreth wore out plenty of leather. He spoke from street corners, campaigned on the Frankford El, shook hands with everyone aboard the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Ladies' Day" excursion to New York...
...Algeria, which Frenchmen fondly imagine they have made a part of metropolitan France by simple administrative fiat, rebels emerged from their Aures mountain stronghold, went marauding through the Constantine countryside in bands of 80 to 100, cutting telegraph lines, tearing up railroad tracks, and on three occasions boldly attacking police and army patrols. Hopping about the troubled area in a helicopter, Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle admitted: "The situation is serious." All week long in Paris, Premier Faure conferred worriedly amidst a din of newspaper alarm. For Morocco and Algeria he could offer only promises for the future...
...blame on recalcitrant Comrade Vidali : "This tension was due to a very special political situation." Imperial Procession. For several days, Togliatti could not be moved. Then, surrounded by an imperial procession of bodyguards, doctors and attendants, he was borne on a stretcher to a special railroad car. Overnight the train moved slowly to Rome. An ambulance whisked Togliatti off to his home in Monte Sacro...
...Dallas spur is short when measured against the great era of railroad building. But it is a small indication of the aggressive railroading for which the Santa Fe has been famed ever since the first seven-mile stretch was laid near Topeka almost 100 years ago. By always reaching out for new customers, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway...
Opening the West. The first man to do things in the lazy Santa Fe style was a Topeka lawyer named Cyrus Holliday, who dreamed of running a railroad into the great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner. By 1890 he and a succession of strong-willed presidents had battled Indians, buffalo and rival railroaders to build or buy 9,000 miles of track. In 1894 the overextended Santa Fe went bankrupt and was picked up by Railroader Edward Ripley, who added 2,000 more miles of track by 1920, quadrupled the gross and put the company in a strong financial...