Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From St. Louis Ike whistle-stopped through Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana to a warm welcome from Bob Taft in Ohio. Total Eisenhower talk and travel record from Monday to Monday: 2,590 miles by rail, 1,800 miles by air (in & out of New York for the A.F.L. convention), 123 miles by motorcade, 50 speeches...
Modern Comforts. Other topics on the agenda: whether religious should use sleeping cars or sit-up coach seats for long rail trips, whether novices in religious houses should be allowed to look at the outer world on television. Before one of the sisters' discussion sessions, it was discovered that a priest was to address them on the subject of modern comforts and conveniences. Up rose a seven-member nuns' committee to protest. Said Mother Mary Gerald, O.P., "Why should any man tell us about our comforts and conveniences?" Four nuns were hastily scheduled to speak in the priest...
...rail for righthanders, the other for southpaws. The Stecken head "rides" the rail until it hits the Hornuss...
Staring lonesomely at the tossing Atlantic from the rail of a Liberty ship, Medical Corpsman Frank Hayostek felt a small notion growing big inside him. Why not? said the notion...
...hill, which rises, like a precarious reef from a mounting sea, above a tide of pigs. The citizens of Secaucus on their hill rarely sniff the full exhalation of the piggeries; but the town's neighbors do, and so do millions of travelers who pass through by rail or over the New Jersey Turnpike. For years the authorities have tried to make New Jersey's Moonbeam a little daintier. Further expansion of pig farming was forbidden in 1948 (with the result that the pigs became more & more crowded). Reluctant industry was urged to move to Secaucus, and even...