Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., who checked out of a full-floor Ambassador suite last week after failing to get a diploma from the Army Command and General Staff College at nearby Fort Leavenworth, Kans. With two aides, a collie and 35 pieces of luggage, he boarded a private railroad car bound for the West Coast and the only person who seemed to care: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...reasons as obsoletion of market, lack of distributing facilities, attempting to make a product exclusively for the still relatively small Puerto Rican market. The government, too, had its failures. The Land Authority tried valiantly, even mechanized sugar loading by a system that blows the semirefined product from trucks or railroad cars., into ships, eliminating bags. But it could not meet its allotted task of increasing output of sugar, and its lands and plants may be sold to local capitalists if they will agree to mechanize harvesting, keep wages up, shun attempts at political control...
...ailing, n 2-year-old Pennsylvania Railroad, "this is going to be the worst year." The 1958 deficit, said Vice President David C. Bevan last week, will top the $4,048,000 loss of 1946, only other year that the Pennsy was in the red. The line has lost money for seven straight months, and "July will be very...
...diabetes, Landlord Worthing was taken to a hospital, told that one of his legs must be amputated. As he lay waiting for the operation, he looked back over a life that had led from college to a job as signal design engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, then to real estate dealings in white-tenanted property, and finally, after a severe Depression loss, into Negro rentals. Then Evan Edward Worthing called his lawyer to the hospital, explained the terms of a will he wanted drawn. Eleven months later, in December 1951. he died. In his principal bequest, he gave...
...highest level since September and a good 50 points above the recession low set last October. Spurred on by the good steel news, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic rose. Lower gasoline stocks and the prospect of stiffer curbs shoved the depressed oils ahead. Even the troubled railroads, which have had precious little to toot about this year, built up some steam. With the possibility of favorable legislation, the Dow-Jones railroad average hit a new 1958 high...