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...watching railroad employment dwindle from 2,000,000 in 1920 to 780,000 in 1960, have fought to preserve their hold by negotiating archaic, make-work labor contracts. The railroads, battered by competition from trucks, buses and planes, have fought to cut jobs still more and in 1959 launched an all-out publicity attack on the "featherbedding," which they claimed cost them $500 million a year. Last week, after more than a year of study, a 15-man Presidential Railroad Commission came up with the first coherent and impartial proposals on the subject...
...Public Health Service announced last week an all-out effort to conquer some of the assorted sniffles, coughs and other discomforts generally but misleadingly known as the "common cold." The core of the program, said Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, will be to develop and test vaccines against viruses already known to cause many of the infections that afflict the average American three or more times a year, keep an estimated 125,000 workers (and probably even more schoolchildren) at home every day, cost industry about $3 billion a year, and spur the sale of at least $100 million worth...
...question of civil defense, the statement claimed the fall-out program "will actually offer no protection...in the event all-out nuclear attack" and that s not even consider the "violence social disorganization" would exist among survivors...
...After failing six years ago in an all-out proxy fight to take over the Seiberling Rubber Co. Toledo Industrialist Edward Lamb, 59, kept at it, and proclaimed last week that he now owns 51% of the sagging Akron tiremaker's stock. His enterprises already include 25 companies ranging from radio and TV stations to a factory that produces sugar cane harvesting equipment. Lamb, the scrappy son of a commercial fisherman, worked his way through Dartmouth (24) to become a highly successful lawyer whose practice included both corporations and labor unions. At Seiberling, Lamb plans to keep on recently...
Designed to Promote. From all-out liberal-trade men there were a few complaints that Kennedy had offered too many sops to protectionists, and as Congress goes to work on the bill, it will certainly hear from plenty of manufacturers and labor leaders who think the sops are insignificant. But in general, Kennedy's program was well designed to promote free enterprise both at home and abroad. And, as the President said, its fate "could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the cold war and the growth of our nation for a generation or more...