Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berth Control. In Onomichi, Japan, after Mrs. Yukiko Hashiguchi, 34, sobbed to railroad officials that, somewhere down the line at a station she could not remember, she had stepped off her train for a drink of water with her seven-year-old son, who got lost, the officials phoned round, soon reported that her boy had been located, found her sobbing afresh because the train had gone on its way, carrying her luggage and five-year-old daughter...
...Even the railroad industry was picking up fast. New York Central, which has a loss of $8.4 million for the first nine months this year, v. $8.8 million earned in the same period of 1957, reported earnings of $1.9 million in September, v. $0.3 million in September...
...parents made their decision. George Wolfe, 54, a storekeeper for the Camas Prairie Railroad, packed his family off to a log cabin on an abandoned gold-mining claim in the isolated, rugged Salmon River Canyon, 80 miles from the nearest high school, eight miles by rubber raft from the nearest road. There Reho Wolfe, who once attended a normal school, set up a school-within-a-home, arranged for texts, lessons and tests through a correspondence course. Wolfe, a high school graduate, who has had music training, continued his job in Lewiston, commuted to the cabin on weekends, when...
...year before, Minneapolis-Honeywell (regulators) had the best third-quarter in its history in both sales and earnings. It earned $5,847,624 v. $4,143,615 for the July-September period of 1957. Even where business has been worst, in the railroads, there was good news. Pennsylvania Railroad, operating in the red for most of this year, reported that in September it operated in the black for the second consecutive month. At the same time railroads that had been making money did even better. Northern Pacific reported that the September gross of $18,285,000 was the second best...
Mistakes Will Happen. Tanguy was herded into a sealed cattle car with a group of Jewish children bound for a German concentration camp. For 3½ days, under a broiling August sun. the railroad car remained unopened while the children wept, sickened, and gradually lost control of their natural functions. Tanguy kept up his courage by believing that it was all a "mistake," and that once the authorities found out that he was not Jewish they would send him back to his mother. The word "mistake" recurs through Del Castillo's book and picks up the same rhetorical power...