Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrombosis," Morrison explains, "was the traffic strangulation caused by five separate railroad stations, 144 grade crossings, the five-mile-long New Basin Canal with its lift bridges. Hypertension was the pressure on the downtown nerve center because of a lack of parking space and too great a concentration of people in a few buildings. The third of the municipal ailments was the slum cancer...
...Ernest Sterling Marsh, 54, was elected president of the century-old Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., longest U.S. railroad (13,076 miles) and fourth largest in operating revenue ($590 million in 1956), succeeding Fred G. Gurley, 68, Santa Fe president since 1944, who becomes board chairman. Marsh left the eleventh grade in 1918 to join the Santa Fe as a clerk in Clovis, N. Mex., went to Chicago as chief clerk in the president's office in 1942. Two years later, he was made assistant to the president, and in 1948 became vice president in charge of finance...
...Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures of a very correct 19th century English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere in India a love interest enters in the shape of a native--though properly British-educated--princess whom the travelers rescue as she is about to be sacrificed on her late husband's funeral pyre. There is even a second lastminite rescue...
...Electric Corp. reported profits of 82? a share on record first-quarter sales after suffering a loss in the strike-idled first quarter of 1956. General Dynamics Corp. showed a profit rise of 103% (from 56? to $1.13 a share) on a sales increase of 93%. The Union Pacific Railroad Co. increased its profits from 67? a share to 73?, and Northern Pacific Railway profits rose from 54? to 73?. Earnings of Mack Trucks, Inc. rose 33% above the 1956 first-quarter level (from 89? to $1.18 a share...
Candy Butcher. Replacing old-style coach-car candy butchers, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is equipping New York-Washington passenger trains with stainless-steel-and-plastic vending wagons designed by the Coca-Cola Co. Manned by attendants trained to tinkle a polite bell instead of loudly hawking their wares, the carts have insulated containers for hot coffee, cold milk, fruit juice, soft drinks, also carry sandwiches, fruit, pastry, doughnuts, cakes, candy...