Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third and final swing, he rolled through Michigan on a special train drawing bigger crowds than Adlai Stevenson had drawn along the same route a week earlier. They were warm crowds; newsmen could find no trace of "that anti-Nixon feeling." There were 2,200 at the railroad station in Lansing, 5,000 at Battle Creek, 2,500 at Kalamazoo (about twice the crowd Stevenson drew) and 2,000 at Niles. Across Lake Michigan, in Chicago's Loop, more than 200,000-the biggest crowd to greet a visitor there since General Douglas MacArthur came home in 1951-thronged...
Eventually, the domestic producers' worries about oil imports will disappear without Government restrictions. Says General Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls the flow of oil from Texas fields: "The problem is on high center now, but time will eventually work it out." In the not too distant future, world oil demand will climb so high that all available production both in the U.S. and abroad will be needed. For the short run, restricting imports would not only place a heavy burden on diminishing U.S. oil reserves; it would also undo much of the good...
...Democrats Have Did." Playing all the factors against Hoegh is the Democratic candidate for governor, 45-year-old Herschel C. Loveless, former mayor of Ottumwa (pop. 33,000). A onetime railroad-bridge-building foreman whose education was limited to high school, Loveless speaks to the voters in shop English ("Hoegh has went"; "Democrats have did"), but he speaks a language that opens the ears. "The cost of state government when income is on the decline is the No. 1 problem in Iowa," he tells his campaign audiences. "Do you want 'High-Tax Hoegh' back in the State Capitol...
...three. As governor, Gene booted out his motor vehicles commissioner for refusing to cut prices on automobile licenses to $3 on Gene's say-so. When the public-service commission would not lower utility rates, Gene ordered the commissioners to trial before him, found them guilty of using railroad passes, as punishment replaced them with his own men. His most outrageous move came after the state treasurer refused to dole out funds until the legislature appropriated them. Gene called out the militia, had militiamen carry the treasurer out of his office, brought in locksmiths to open the treasury vaults...
...amid the worst of last winter's snows, Nannarella stole a march on the other captains and queens by bribing a railroad official to sidetrack a trainload of potatoes from Germany for her own use. "Providence will provide," she told the other captains when they began to wonder what had happened to the potatoes. But as winter wore on and Providence seemed to provide only for Nannarella, the others grew suspicious. At last, her archrival, a tall, handsome ruffian named Gigi, sent some of his subjects to infiltrate Nannarella's realm. "Gigi is finished anyway," they told...