Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running a Railroad...
...claim, to be a newsmagazine, but your June 22 article disparaging the commuter service on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad revealed your magazine for what it is: merely an entertaining collection of witticism, distortion, and onesided reporting tailored to please those lazy-minded individuals who haven't got the guts to think for themselves...
...nine Governors-sat down to a caviar-to-strawberries feast hosted by the city's top Red, drank toasts to peace, friendship, good relations, mutual understanding, culture, trade, U.S. youth, Soviet youth, U.S. women and Soviet women, broke out in I've Been Workin' on the Railroad and Auld Lang Syne. And in Moscow, Dennis Michael O'Connor, 26, U.S. exchange student at Moscow University, and Mary Louise McMahon, 22, lately arrived from Tenafly, N.J., got married in the city's only Roman Catholic Church. Why get married in the U.S.S.R.? Explained O'Connor...
Unless the triumphant Los Alamos men decide to give Kiwi-A a second full-power run, last week's test will probably be its finish. After a few days, when radioactivity dies down somewhat, the unshielded reactor will be hauled along a railroad track by a remote-controlled locomotive to a special MAD (Maintenance, Assembly and Disassembly) shop, where mechanical hands will take it apart. The condition of its still deadly interior parts (examined by periscope, TV, or through thick, transparent shields) will tell the Los Alamos men much about how to build nuclear rockets that actually...
...Post Office Department will soon introduce vending machines, made by Electric Vendors of Minneapolis, that will sell paper, envelopes and stamps, automatically make change up to a dollar, then weigh the letter and accept it for mailing. Designed for after-hours service, the machines will first be placed in railroad and airport terminals, later built into the walls of post offices and office buildings in major cities...