Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talents is tremendous. In just the past three years, Gloria has recorded for more than 2,000 singing commercials. All day, every day, she warbles as the Schlitz Beer girl ("You'll be the kiss of the hops in every glass"), as the Scottissue girl, the Santa Fe Railroad's Indian boy ("Santa Fe, all the way"). She is the voice of the impish Tinker Bell orbiting around a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter, of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse, and (on records) of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. One firm planned a commercial featuring...
Through its in years, the Pennsylvania Railroad has never been successfully challenged by a rebel stockholder or failed to pay an annual cash dividend. Last week both those possibilities cornered the Pennsy...
...government had won only a round. There was still the possibility that Cousins' strike might make other unions follow suit. In Manchester 126,000 chemical workers, and in South Wales the Mineworkers' Union, were already making threats. So were the heads of Britain's three top railroad unions, who could really bring things to a standstill. To the government, worried by inflation, the basic issue was defense of the pound. Said Macmillan: "What is needed is a general acceptance of the fact that to pay ourselves more in wages or profits for the same amount of output...
...last of the fifth, B.U. pitcher Bill McCormick got his team's first run by belting a 375-foot homer onto the railroad tracks beyond the left field fence. This, it was recalled, is where Bob Elliott used to hit them...
Jungle Counterpane. In Oakland, Calif., a hobo arrested in the Southern Pacific Railroad yards was carrying an electric blanket in his bindle...