Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastern roads had persuasive arguments to prove that their plight was not their fault. With investors shying away from railroads the carriers had trouble financing major improvements, except what could be done out of earnings. Furthermore, the ironclad rules of the railway brotherhoods kept railroad costs high by featherbedding. Worse still, the railroads had suffered from too much regulation, notably, out-of-date rules intended to keep them from becoming transportation monopolies-something which the buses and airlines now prevent, anyway...
...Young started to unload his Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad stock early this year, a Chicago trio began to buy up his holdings. By last week, Young was out and the trio had gobbled up 25% of Rock Island stock, one of the largest single holdings of any major railroad...
Price echoed the views of Representatives Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the committee, and Paul J. Kilday (D-Tex), another key member. He explained that the major opposition to the draft came from Congressmen who were afraid of a peacetime...
...think it is obvious that questions like these could be asked endlessly. The point is that the major part of the answer is already apparent. Harvard does not and cannot train the "whole man." It can only try to channel the into pursuits that will benefit them while they are here and after they graduate; but nothing can alter the fact that Harvard has little or nothing to do with the formation of character which so greatly colors the life of any student before he comes to Cambridge. This means that no person or persons can accurately gauge the effect...
...Wore a Yellow Ribbon" makes John Wayne a cavalry captain who has to worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...