Word: switchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nipped in the Bud. Like a master switchman in a freight yard, he bossed the whole Santa Anita operation from his cupola, rigged up a battery of telephones to connect him with every corner of the enclosure. It has worked, so far. Original stockholders, who paid $5,000 a share, have been offered $62,500 for them. Besides paying out whopping dividends, Doc plows great chunks of money back into his gold mine-giving paying guests more comfort, beauty, entertainment and $100,000 races. This winter, at a cost of $400,000, he opened a fancy new lounge and restaurant...
...week switchman on the Brooklyn Bridge, Andy Varipapa used to jog back & forth across the bridge every day to develop his legs. In the finals of a recent Chicago tournament, 16 crack bowlers had to roll a grueling 64 games in four days. Varipapa, though 53, was the only one to finish without sore muscles. Despite his chunkiness his arms are sinewy, his wrists powerful, his legs hard. Volatile as he is, Varipapa rarely loses his temper during a match. Says he: "Sometimes I get mad when the ball hits the pins the right way and they...
Jackson drew a long breath and Switchman Gunter took it up from there. "Suppose the dispatcher holds up a freight two or three hours before he gets a spot for it. The crew doesn't get paid the first 15 minutes he's fiddling around. And then there's this assigning crews to different types of work. Say a crew's worked eight hours on a packinghouse job and the yardmaster says to make up another train afterwards and it only takes two hours. We want eight hours pay for the second...
...years Switchman Fritz Walther had handled Berlin's eastbound trains. Ebert's presidential train, Hindenburg's three-car special, Hitler's headquarters coach has passed his post. A loyal Nazi, Walther was twice decorated by the Third Reich for devotion to duty...
Last week the switchman, still handling1 eastbound traffic, saw a chance to prove his devotion. As a passenger train passed his tower, he threw a wrong switch, sent it plunging into a parked freight loaded with Red Army supplies and re-enforcements. Casualties: 18 killed, 32 seriously injured...