Word: railways
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...line is leather," said the English salesman to the American in the railway carriage "What's yours?" The average-looking American looked up and smiled. "Truth," he replied...
...writer cared to take the blame. It sprawls through a succession of Sigmund Romberg songs, all just sufficiently tuneful to sound like the same tune. In the face of this, the brighter bits-the acting of London's Charles Goldner, a ditty called Up in the Elevated Railway, some of Agnes de Mille's dance routines and most of Eldon Elder's sets-fail to count for a great deal. Even Jeanmaire herself doesn't count for quite enough...
...British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled in a Hungarian village whose name had been changed from "Peace" to "Beloyannis" in honor of a Communist spy executed in Athens...
...master stroke in his fight to control the New York Central. Last week two oil-rich Texans, both close friends of Young, put up $20 million in cash and bought 800,000 shares of Central stock, biggest single block outstanding, from Cyrus S. Eaton's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (at a profit of $2,400,000 to the C. & O.). The friendly buyers were Clinton W. Murchison, 58, of Dallas, whom Texans proudly describe as "really a wheeler-dealer," and Sid W. Richardson, 62, of Fort Worth, often called the richest man in oil reserves...
...long and successful career analyzing the securities of railroads that have undergone or are going through reorganization, New York Financier Patrick B. McGinnis has developed a sharp eye for good buys in railroad stocks. A group he headed got control of the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in 1947; the following year he helped Frederic C. Dumaine Sr. get control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and later got a large chunk of common stock in the Central of Georgia Railway Co. But as a railroad officer, his batting average was not so good: stockholders eased him out last...