Download or read book The Return of the Santa Fe Super Chief written by Douglas Folsom and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Storm has it all: money, a beautiful fiancee, and a career as an advertising executive for a major airline. But when a mysterious stranger dressed in a 1940s train porter's uniform convinces him to restore the Santa Fe Super Chief, America's most famous old luxury train, for one last run from Chicago to Los Angeles, Roger's life will never be the same. Given a guest list and orders to arrange for all of the expenses out of his own pocket, Roger will risk certain financial ruin in order to find out shocking revelations about his own life and attain a happiness he never knew was missing. Field of Dreams meets An Affair to Remember on a mystical train ride. Infused with a magical realism and spirituality that is missing from most books, this is a truly touching novel that opens our eyes to the sometimes supernatural forces that mysteriously and unexpectedly give us glimpses of heaven while providing healing and hope. With an endearing urge to touch readers in a way that few novels can, author Douglas Folsom does an excellent job of making readers actually experience the underlying message in his heartwarming tale. Genre: Magical Realism, Mystery, Romance, Spiritual. Tone: Heartwarming, Inspirational, Romantic, and Nostalgic.
Download or read book The Adventures of Ozzie Nelson written by John R. Holmes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name. For a guy who had created the longest-running TV sitcom in history, invented the rock video, and fronted one of the most successful big bands of the 1930s, it's baffling that Nelson has faded so far from American media memory. Larger than life offscreen--an attorney, college football star, cartoonist, songwriter, major band leader--Ozzie created a smaller-than-life TV persona, the bumbling average Dad who became known to the rock generation (which included his teen idol son Rick Nelson) as the essence of blandness. But America also saw Ozzie as their iconic Dad: not a "father knows best," since his pontifications usually proved flawed by the end of each episode, but the father who tried his best. This book is the only full-length biography of Ozzie Nelson since he published his memoirs in 1973. It treats the big band and early TV icon with affection and hints that American pop culture may owe more to Ozzie than is generally acknowledged.
Download or read book Santa Fe Super Chief and El Capitan 1936 1971 written by TLC Publishing and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the two most famous Santa Fe passenger trains in the last decades of passenger service: the Super Chief and the El Capitan.
Download or read book City of Nets written by Otto Friedrich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-05-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Hollywood in the 1940's
Download or read book A Million Little Bricks written by Sarah Herman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toy of the Year, Toy of the Century, Greatest Toy of All Time . . . there aren't many titles that haven’t been bestowed on LEGO toys, and it’s not hard to see why. From its inception in the early 1930s right up until today, the LEGO Group’s history is as colorful as the toys it makes. Few other playthings share the LEGO brand’s creative spirit, educative benefits, resilience, quality, and universal appeal. The LEGO name is now synonymous with playtime, but it wasn’t always so. This history charts the birth of the LEGO Group in the workshop of a Danish carpenter and its steady growth as a small, family-run toy manufacturer to its current position as a market-leading, award-winning brand. The company’s ever-increasing catalogof products—including the earliest wooden toys, plastic bricks, play themes, and other building systems such as DUPLO, Technic, and MINDSTORMS—are chronicled in detail, alongside the manufacturing process, LEGOLAND parks, licensed toys, and computer games. Learn all about how LEGO pulled itself out of an economic crisis and embraced technology to make building blocks relevant to twenty-first-century children and discover the vibrant fan community of kids and adults whose conventions, websites, and artwork keep the LEGO spirit alive. As nostalgic as it is contemporary, A Million Little Bricks will have you reminiscing about old Classic Space sets, rummaging through the attic for forgotten Minifigure friends, and playing with whatever LEGO bricks you can get your hands on (even if it means sharing with your kids).
Download or read book The Life and Times of Ward Kimball written by Todd James Pierce and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides Walt Disney, no one seemed more key to the development of animation at the Disney Studios than Ward Kimball (1914–2002). Kimball was Disney’s friend and confidant. In this engaging, cradle-to-grave biography, award-winning author Todd James Pierce explores the life of Ward Kimball, a lead Disney animator who worked on characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter. Through unpublished excerpts from Kimball’s personal writing, material from unpublished interviews, and new information based on interviews conducted by the author, Pierce defines the life of perhaps the most influential animator of the twentieth century. As well as contributing to classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, Kimball established a highly graphic, idiosyncratic approach to animation alongside the studio’s more recognizable storybook realism. In effect, Ward Kimball became the only animator to run his own in-studio production team largely outside of Walt Disney’s direction. In the 1950s and 1960s, he emerged as a director and producer of his own animation, while remaining inside Disney’s studio. Through Kimball, the studio developed a series of nonfiction animation programs in the 1950s that members of Congress pointed to as paving the way for NASA. The studio also allowed Kimball’s work to abandon some ties to conventional animation, looking instead to high art and graphic design as a means of creating new animated forms, which resulted in films that received multiple Academy Award nominations and two awards. Throughout his life, Kimball was a maverick animator, an artist who helped define the field of American animation, and a visionary who sought to expand the influence of animated films.
Download or read book Les Belles Lettres written by Kitty Katzell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1950. Two young people, very much in love with each other, are both married to someone else. Their letters to each other during the three years they had to wait until they were able to marry each other tell a tender love story. Later letters to friends and family, and to each other when they had to be apart, describe the home they bought, furnished and tended; their professional careers and travels throughout the world; their vocations and avocations; and finally their reitrement and life in the first decade of the 21st century.
Download or read book The Santa Fe Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racing for the Bomb written by Robert S. Norris and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project’s remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was Groves who drove manufacturers, construction crews, scientists, industrialists, and military and civilian officials to come up with the money, the materials, and the plans to solve thousands of problems and build the bomb in only two years. It was his operation, and in Racing for the Bomb he emerges as a take-charge, can-do figure who succeeds in the face of formidable odds. Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves’s actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed. Grove’s extensive influence on key institutions of postwar America has been overlooked for too long. In this full-scale biography, which includes archival material and family letters and documents and features several previously unpublished photographs, Norris places Groves at the center of the amazing Manhattan Project story. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Santa Fe Railway written by Steve Glischinski and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening historical overview of the world's most famous railway. Archival color photography captures the nostalgia of the locomotives, rolling stock, and scenic routes.
Download or read book Railroad Age Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1951-07 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic American Streamliners written by Mike Schafer and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with over 200 photos, this book tells the story of railroad streamliners, from their early days as short little articulated speedsters to their halcyon years as 20-car "cities on wheels"--Places that were going somewhere. And it also tells a story of a time of individuality, when streamliners reflected the personality of the regions they served.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the National Defense Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 41, focuses on Navy fuel purchase contracts for Saudi Arabian oil and businesses' use of institutional advertising for tax exemptions during and after the war.
Download or read book Full Utilization of Manpower Hearings on H R 2239 1742 1728 AndH R 992 Mar 25 31 April 1 23 May 6 7 1943 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Full Utilization of Manpower written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fleeing the Fates of the Little Rascals written by Laura June Kenny and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of Laura June Kenny as she provides this unique look at Hollywood during the Depression when she played in the Little Rascals show.
