Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece and oldest member of the royal household, wound up a social week in Manhattan, pushed on to Florida. The well-heeled Prince and his Princess achieved the second breath-taking triumph of their U.S. visit. First triumph: rooms (they bagged four at the Plaza).Second triumph: train reservations. Said the Prince when he heard reservations were hard to get: "Charter a train for us!" In fact he settled for space aboard two different public trains on two different roads. Southward bound: Prince, Princess, daughter, two grandchildren, a governess, and a valet...
House Cleaning. He put his own house in order, cleared out the deadwood in the front office. Close to $1,000,000 a year was lopped from executive payrolls. He brought in bright, alert young men to train into a new elite production staff, upped likely young men from his own plants, puffed new life into his sales force. In his spare time, he hustled around the country, visiting as many as he could of Ford's 6,200 dealers. In easy, confidential tones, he bolstered them up by letting them in on the company's future plans...
...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...
Most of the Russians stayed on the train, kept the curtains drawn. But Colonel General Shtykov, head of the delegation, went with his immediate aides to the Chosen Hotel. There a teetotaling young U.S. Signal Corps lieutenant, detailed as manager of the hotel, was driven to drink for the first time in his life by the Russians' policy of ordering and then refusing meals and other services. The lobby telephone disappeared, General Shtykov had to have it. The Russians ordered all cars cleared out of the hotel garage to make room for General Shtykov's cars; the harried...
...painting with studied care everyday landscapes and people. They sold well; one of them last year was voted best-in-the-show by gallery-goers at Washington's biennial Corcoran show. In October, Wyeth and a grandson, riding in a station wagon, were struck and killed by a train...