Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insurance companies, Canavan charged, have advertised in the newspapers against this bill in an attempt to "rail-road" its rejection through the House...
...York's Governor Averell Harriman are "three candidates in search of a crisis," said he. Then, singling out Front Runner Stevenson, Nixon added: "Unless he changes his present course, it will begin to look as if the state which gave the nation Abraham Lincoln, the great rail-splitter of 1860, has produced in Adlai Stevenson the great hairsplitter...
...making a good part of his spending money from boys who bet him he couldn't jump a 4½-ft. fence of iron spikes from a standing position, and every once in a while, "just for the hell of it," he would walk along the outer rail of Pasadena's "suicide bridge" on his hands, apparently indifferent to the 190-ft. drop that awaited the least slip. He longed to be a member of Victor McLaglen's motorcycle corps of trick riders, and when he was 16 his father got him a secondhand cycle...
...Into the rail station at Peoria, Ill. last week slithered the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's answer to the annual $700 million deficit of U.S. passenger trains: the Jet Rocket, a light, low train modeled after the Spanish Talgo. Built by ACF Industries, Inc., it is the first of the new lightweight trains to be owned by a U.S. railroad. It begins regular Chicago-Peoria passenger runs this week...
...educated people. Well, at least we have a veneer"). Meanwhile, to keep up the rent payments, Yolaine Randall took a modeling job (sneered Sol: "All she can model is coats. Have you seen her legs? They're horrible"). Meanwhile, Sol got a job as cashier at the Brass Rail restaurant...