Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aboard Milwaukee Road, ten forty-five, The Olympian for Milwaukee, La Crosse, Winona, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Gallatin Gateway, Three Forks, Butte, Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma. . . . Train is now ready on Track 15. ... The Olympian. . . . ALL ABOARD...
Last week the following was news: Six years ago the New York Stock Exchange, casting about for a bright young assistant secretary, lifted Dean Kirkham Worcester out of the investment department of Farmers Loan & Trust Co. Handsome, moose-tall Dean Worcester, who married a daughter of Novelist Arthur Train, had graduated from Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become an engineer for New York Telephone Co. As assistant secretary he distinguished himself at the Stock Exchange early in Depression as a crack trouble-shooter and inside man. In 1930 he was made an officer and director of New York...
...ABOARD, Rock Island Golden State Limited, eight forty-five, for Excelsior Springs, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Dalhart, Santa Rosa, Carrizozo, Alamogordo, El Paso, Douglas, Chandler, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Mexicali, Calexico, Agua Caliente, San Diego, Los Angeles and all points in California. . . . The train is now ready on Track 10 . . . Golden State Limited. . . . ALL ABOARD...
Thus, in one mighty breath, does Jack Barrowcliffe nightly dispatch from Chicago's La Salle Street Station the Golden State Limited, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific's crack express to the West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more...
After the judges had heard all the contestants they awarded a silver cup and the U. S. train-calling championship to Rock Island's Barrowcliffe for his rendering of the following call...