Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strange are the characters Vox Pop has attracted to its mike. Faced with the problem of naming the Father of All Waters, Mrs. Vanderbilt, wife of Rhode Island's Governor, answered tersely: "Pluto." Among those it has interviewed Vox Pop includes Jock Scott, a Scot who has walked around Africa, the U. S. and Canada, and bared his heroic feet for Interviewer Johnson (see cut); Jim Moran, the sedulous wag who claimed he once sold an icebox to an Eskimo in Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into...
...some 500 U. S. short lines (leftovers of the railroad consolidation era), none has shown a tougher and more independent spirit than A. & R. It was born 48 years ago when a burly Scot named John Blue laid the rails to get his lumber, turpentine and rosin to town. Today it originates 35% of its freight traffic, gets the rest through strategic connections with the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk Southern and Cape Fear roads. Some 20% of its freight revenue comes from petroleum; the rest is fertilizer, coal, farm produce, and material for Fort Bragg (20% of non-originated...
Unlike many a bigger road, A. & R. is no stranger to net profits. Only once has it failed to show a profit in the last 20 years. Never has it failed to pay preferred dividends and bond interest ($8,949). For this rare railroading record, natives credit the canny Scot management of the sons of old John Blue, gaunt, black-haired, bushy-browed President William Alexander Blue, 59; small, emaciated Vice President Halbert Johnston Blue, 44, and Secretary-Treasurer Henry McCoy Blue...
...Navy becomes mistress of the seas, the new ruler will have a 165-year-old tradition to look back on. That tradition stems from dashing Scot John Paul Jones, father of the navy, skipper of Bon Homme Richard and many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary is full of brilliant minds. One of them is Dr. James Moffatt, tall, thin, shy, 60-year-old Scot. Officially retired, Dr. Moffatt still teaches a course in church history. A scholar of many interests, he has written as many as five books a year; his specialty is the Bible. The Moffatt Translation, like the recent Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible, is much more colloquial than the Revised Version of 1901, now being re-revised by a committee Under Dr. Moffatt. Last week this Presbyterian pundit had a new job: program consultant for a commercial...