Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...their own. "Missing it," explained Sherman, "might have caused more of a flurry than going.") A special pilot engine, tugging three cars full of Secret Service agents and railroad detectives, pulled out five minutes ahead of the presidential special to scout out possible sabotage along the 133-mile run...
...prosperous lawyer and a highly regarded former governor of Florida, was named civilian defense administrator at $17,500 a year. Washington has no charms for him: he resigned his seat in Congress in 1940 and left the capital after his only son was killed there by a hit-run driver. He was taking the civilian defense job (which does not require Senate confirmation) as a patriotic duty...
Patrons of the nation's most ill-run railroad got encouraging news last week. Major General William H. Draper Jr., onetime (1947-49) Under Secretary of the Army, was expected to be appointed sole trustee of the bankrupt Long Island Rail Road, which in the past nine months, in two accidents, has killed no passengers...
Draper, 56, amateur magician and Wall Street investment banker, doesn't know how to run a railroad, but he does know how to run a business (he is vice president of Dillon, Read & Co., was General Clay's economic expert in Germany...
...Real Independence. At Hanoi last week, Bao Dai colorlessly delivered a colorless speech stressing independence and announcing the formation of three new Vietnamese divisions. Meanwhile, the French and the Vietnamese, after months of haggling, had reached an agreement that as of January 1951 the Vietnamese would run their own treasury and their own customs service. But the French still lacked the will or the imagination to grant the Vietnamese anything that looked to them like real independence...