Gladys was adopted by a Canadian railroad conductor and his wife.

格拉迪丝被加拿大的一个列车乘务员及其妻子领养。

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The first oil well was drilled by E.L. Drake, a retired railroad conductor.

第一口油井为el瑞克，一个退休的火车检票员所钻得。

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The first oil well was drilled by E. L. Drake, a retired railroad conductor.

第一口油井为e·l·瑞克，一个退休的火车检票员所钻得。

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Steven Hites, a former railroad conductor in Skagway, lost his job in 1982 after a nearby mine shut down, causing an 85% drop in freight revenue.

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American accounts usually give the start of the oil age as 1859, the year that a former railroad conductor named Edwin L. Drake drilled his first successful well, near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

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Edwin Drake had no obvious qualifications to run the Seneca Oil Company except for two: as a retired railroad conductor, he could travel by train with a free pass, and--in what is required for the head of any start-up--he was very persistent by nature, indeed downright stubborn.

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