Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likely to change. That attitude was founded on evidence, printed in last month's Blue Book, that Juan Perón. had been hand-in-glove with U.S. enemies in World War II. But with Perón the winner, his country's presence at the proposed Rio conference of American republics would be embarrassing to all, and most to the U.S. Prospects that the conference would meet this month-or even this spring-were growing...
...Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Missouri Pacific; New York, New Haven & Hartford; St. Louis-San Francisco; St. Louis-Southwestern; Western Pacific...
...Texas, ex-Army Pilots William V. Wood and Bill Dobbins pooled their $16,000 savings to buy two surplus planes. Last week their Fleetwood Airways started flying the San Antonio Evening News to subscribers in the Rio Grande Valley, 230 miles away. But that brought in only $40 a day, hardly enough to cover expenses. Others were not even that lucky...
...officials of the Denver" & Rio Grande Western and the Denver & Salt Lake Railway Co. loudly blew their own horn. The tortuous, dangerous trackage they shared through the Colorado Rockies, said they, would henceforth be as safe as a baby's crib. Reason: they had spent $5,000,000 to build a "foolproof" central traffic control system (CTC). A dispatcher could keep such close tabs on train movements that it was "absolutely impossible for two trains to come together unless an engineer deliberately runs through a signal...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate...