Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franco-Swiss border has been touchy. Last week it was downright itchy. Over the long-distance telephone from the Swiss frontier station of Le Locle came the stationmaster's voice, cold and hollow. "French fleas," it said, "are infiltrating our border in the clothing of French railroad workers. It is a veritable invasion...
...building fund, a Wall Street banking group raised $11 million. The New York Central put up the land and with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad another $10 million more. (As a big New York Central stockholder, which now gets a yearly rental for the land on Park Ave., Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, grande dame of Manhattan's social world, will, in effect, be one of Connie Hilton's new landlords...
Except for a slump in railroad carloadings there were few signs as yet that the strikes were having much effect on business. It would be several weeks before most auto manufacturers felt any real pinch in their steel supplies. Some businessmen were cutting down on forward buying, and steel warehouses were planning to allocate their dwindling supplies. But Mill & Factory magazine, in its latest survey of 1,000 manufacturers, found that 63% of them thought that the business outlook was brighter now than six months...
...National Scholarship calls for a candidate from "that part of the State of Iowa now served by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad." The donor of the fund held the controlling interest in the line in 1909 when he gave the scholarship...
Died. Oswald Garrison Villard, 77, crusading editor (the New York Evening Post, 1897-1918; the Nation, 1918-32); in Manhattan. Heir to the diehard liberalism of his grandfather, Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and to the fortune of his father, Henry Villard (one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad), Editor Villard spent a lifetime plumping for such causes as civil liberties and pacifism, finally came to the conclusion that most of his heroes (notably Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith and F.D.R.) had feet of clay...