Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles from Chicago to Aurora, Ill., the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad hauls some 15,000 commuters a day. Some cars are half a century old, draughty in winter, hot and sooty in summer. Last week the Burlington served up a pleasant surprise: it rolled out three new stainless steel, 148-passenger, double-decker cars, the first of 30 being built by Philadelphia's Budd Co. at a cost of $152,000 each. With them, and 70 modernized conventional cars, the Burlington hopes to wean many a new customer from the highways, put its money-losing commuting service into...
Supplying money-making equipment to railroads is an old story to the Budd Co., which sold the first stainless steel streamliner, the Pioneer Zephyr, to the Burlington in 1934. Since World War II the company has sold some $115 million of railroad equipment, gained such a fat share of the market that it is now second only to Pullman as a railroad passenger-car builder. With the help of this booming sideline (Budd gets 83% of its revenue by making auto bodies, wheels, brakes), the company rolled up $137 million in sales for the first six months of 1950, boosted...
...Santa Fe's stainless steel El Capitan, an all-coach express of 16 cars, glittered eastward at 90 m.p.h. on the last leg of the run from Los Angeles. It was 5:40 a.m., and Chicago was only 148 miles away. On an adjoining track, also Chicago-bound, the slower Kansas City Chief clicked along at a modest 65. In both trains, as they raced side by side near Monica, Ill., dawn and restlessness had prodded light sleepers into wakefulness. Washrooms were crowded with women prettying their faces and men shaving...
...might respect a concert pianist, and who felt that all good pilots were touched with greatness. He liked to see other .men succeed. He had a hellraiser's humor and an odd humbleness which prevented him from posing as a man of destiny. And at his core-steely, stainless and incorruptible-was a gladiator's indomitability...
...prospective buyers stormed in and around seven sample stucco and wood houses, priced from $8,000 for two bedrooms to $9,000 for three. All had automatic garbage-disposal units, stainless steel kitchens, picture windows and garages. By week's end 611 houses had been sold (no down payment for veterans, one-third for others), and the buyers could count on moving in within two months...