Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privy in the backyard? Did he have a television set? A refrigerator? A furnace? If so, did he use coal, coke, wood, utility gas, bottled gas, liquid fuel, or electricity? Did he have a kitchen sink? Where did he live-in a house, apartment, flat, trailer, tent, boat, railroad car, rooming house, hotel, jail, or tourist camp? If he rented a furnished house, what would it rent for unfurnished...
...Chicago, which, in Ojibwa, means "wild onion place," onions were indeed running wild. So many carloads of onions poured in and jammed railroad yards and warehouses last week that the Association of American Railroads slapped an embargo on further shipments. Reason for the glut: farmers had held their onions off the market in hopes that last autumn's cloud-high prices would reach the stratosphere (TIME, Sept. 26). But when the prices started to drop, farmers hurriedly dumped their holdings. Under the avalanche, prices collapsed. From a high of $5.05 a 50-lb. sack last September, onions skidded...
Spectators at the Harvard-Yale Regatta at New London, June 23 may again be able to view the race from an observation train, if a proposal of the New Haven Railroad is approved by the Athletic Committees of both Universities...
Consisting of regular bleachers built on standard flatcars, the pre-war train rode down the banks of the Thames, following each of the three races, ending up on a railroad bridge which spans the river at the finish line...
...ever stop it may fall like a house of cards." The chances of his stopping are slim; Koerner now lives largely for his painting and his Manhattan exhibitions have sold well enough (up to $3,000 for an oil) to keep him comfortable. Divorced, he lives alone in a railroad apartment in Brooklyn, the furniture painted with gay floral patterns by himself. On the living-room mantel is a female statuette from a drugstore win dow. The studio walls are covered with working sketches and reproductions of Giotto-"my greatest teacher...