Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing; making it work would be another. Several sources reported last week that one of the secret Yalta agreements included a promise to allow Russia some 50% of all reparations. Russia had been busily practicing what the commission now preached, uprooting whole factories and moving them eastward by the train load. Could the Russian zone, partly stripped, actually be treated as "a single entity" with the British and U.S. areas, where no such confiscation had been planned? Would the Russians want to collect from the other zones as well, or would Moscow consider its bill as paid...
...learned telegraphy. At 19 he was a train dispatcher. On his salary of $110 a month, he married Lena A. Schatz, a rural schoolteacher, and took a short time off for his honeymoon. It was his last vacation for 35 years...
...inch of it and, according to legend, the first names of some 10,000 U.P. workers. Hard on his employes, with a business eye he humored the slightest whims of passengers. When a woman complained about the cuspidors in a chair car, Bill Jeffers had them taken off the train...
...Tradition. Jeffers was hard but not hard-shelled. He cracked tradition with the low-fare, de luxe chair-car trains which U.P. started to run from Chicago to the coast in 1934. He followed this up in 1935 with the second streamlined train, the tiny three-car City of Salina, the first of the seven streamliners which U.P. now operates...
Give Me a Train of Thought. The chief trouble with libraries, says Bush, is that information has to be tracked down through an intricate indexing system. "Having found one item . . . one has to emerge from the system and re-enter on a new path. The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association." The machine would mechanize this process by permanently tying together two or more items with code numbers. Thereafter, the same train of thought could be projected on a screen at will by tapping off the right code (recorded in a code book...