Word: railways
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...still are his long silences and gestures of over-anxious assent. These are the times when he is learning a new part, not conversing but understudying, snatching your soul away before you have time to sell it. The knowledge gained in this way is astonishing. From his father, a railway man, he learned the names and locations of all the American cities with populations of more than five thousand...
...middle of the spring term, the Boston Elevated Railway Co. lowered the rates of a ride to Park St. from 8c to 5c. Apparently to took too much time to count the pennies. The Federal Railway Commission set the price of meals on interstate rail-roads at $1.25 a plate, thus assuring that Californians would no longer have to fast on their four-day trip East...
...Chief Justice-designate is a son of the sturdy, stolid Middle West, the fourth of seven children born to parents of Swiss-German descent, Charles and Katharine Burger. The father was a railway cargo inspector who turned occasionally to traveling as a salesman of coffee or candy or patent medicines; the Burger brood was raised largely by the mother, who died only last year at 94. Mrs. Burger insisted that all the children attend Methodist Sunday school. The family moved in and around St. Paul; for a time they had a 20-acre farm, raising tomatoes to supplement the meager...
Venerable and Vulnerable. Heineman, 55, is the self-assured attorney who took over the wheezing Chicago and North Western Railway in 1956 and surprised skeptical industry veterans by turning the company into a moneymaker. Only four years ago, he began spreading into steel, clothing and chemicals, and later formed Northwest Industries, a holding company. Its sales rose impressively from $260 million in 1965 to $701 million...
...prepermissive days, I was a Freshman Dean at Harvard. Rules were simpler then: if a student failed, he was expelled. If expelled, he was readmitted only after three or more months of hard (but compensated) labor, such as digging ditches for the Boston Edison Company, or the Boston Elevated Railway Company...