Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Executive Vice President Walter S. Franklin, himself at the voluntary retirement age of 65 (mandatory retirement age: 70). Franklin had started on a freight platform in Philadelphia in 1906, worked steadily up through the freight division. He left the Pennsy three times-twice to become president of other railroads (Wabash and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton). Each time he returned to a better job with the Pennsy. In 1948 he was made executive vice president...
...climaxed ten short years of railroading for William N. Deramus III, who is as big and brawny as a coal passer. Fresh out of Harvard Law in 1939, he started as a transportation department apprentice with the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis, two years later became assistant terminal master. During the war, as an Army major in India, he ran a ramshackle railroad which carried supplies to the Ledo Road. Said he: "After I got through with that line I was about ready to become a truck driver...
Conant was assisted in Natural Sciences this year by Professor Duane E. Roller of Wabash College and assistant professors Fletcher G. Watson '36 and Leohard K. Nash. The course will be repeated in 1940-50, and will be limited to 150 freshman and sophomore students. It is designed for men expecting to major in the social science or humanities, and who have never taken a college science course before...
...read treatises on precious stones, used jewelers' tools to break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
Assistants for the course are Professor Duane Roller of Wabash College, Professor earl J. McGrath of the University of Chicago, and Professor Fletcher Watson of the Harvard Graduate School of Education...