Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sire & Sisu. Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors...
...Patrick Lannan has parlayed a genteel raiding technique into a corporate empire with interests ranging from nickel vending machines to high-priced dredging operations. Last week Pat Lannan and Arthur Wirtz, ice-show and boxing promoter and real-estate owner, informed directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad that they had control of the 10,640-mile road, fourth largest...
...RAILROAD MERGER between Louisville & Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway has been recommended by ICC examiner. Under deal calling for stock swap, L. & N. (which already owns 75% of smaller road) will take over N.C. & St. L., combine operations along 5,777 miles of track through 13 Southern and Midwestern states. Though labor unions and Nashville civic groups oppose merger, two roads say it will save $3,000,000 annually in operating costs...
...Colombia, $95 million for highways, agriculture, railroads, and power development. Most dramatic project: a railroad along the winding Magdalena River to replace stern-wheeler river boats as Colombia's main transport, open up vast new areas for cattle production...
...Negroes in hogsheads with nails driven, in all around and roll them downhill. One fugitive slave, possibly a survivor of some such punishment, had himself nailed up in a box 3 ft. by 2½ ft. by 2 ft. and survived a 25-hour shipment on the railroad to the North. There was a real-life model for Eliza who fled across Ohio River ice, but with no bloodhounds in pursuit. In fact, the bloodhounds are a bit of stage business thought up by the play adapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin and do not exist in Mrs. Stowe...