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Born: March 19, 1892, at Coytesville, N.J. His father, William, took the family homesteading to Florida a year later, became first president of the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway...
...time. Travelers on the Shanghai-Canton and Hankow-Canton runs also speak of clean sleeping berths, cheap, well-cooked meals, diners decorated with portraits of Stalin. The Communists have rebuilt the main lines destroyed between 1946 and 1949, are completing such new links as the long-planned railway from Chungking to Chengtu...
Klondike Kid. The Katz family came to the U.S. from Austria when Ike was nine and Mike was one. After four years of school, Ike went to work at 13 on the Great Northern Railway, peddling Navajo blankets, straw mattresses (at $1.50 apiece), food & drink to prospectors going to the Klondike. Then Ike and Mike started their fruit stands. In four years of 19-hour workdays they made enough money (about $500) for Ike to buy a little down-at-heels hotel and make...
Memo to the Boss. In Tokyo, Railway Employee Yusuke Shikauchi sneaked off to a baseball game on company time, wound up on the front pages of the newspapers next day for winning the automobile raffled off at the game...
...open pit mine in the state of Bolivar. Bethlehem eventually expects to get 3,000,000 tons a year for its big Sparrows Point steel mill in return for the ten years of work and $50 million poured into the Venezuelan project. It has built a highway, a railway (the only standard gauge in Venezuela) and three communities in the jungle. Bethlehem thinks the money well spent; its Venezuelan beds hold an estimated 60 million tons of ore, which is richer than the fast-vanishing deposits in Minnesota's Mesabi Range...