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...some mysterious molten droplets falling out of the sky. In about the time that it takes a feature story to move over a press association's wire, the ghostly, ghastly pox spread. It appeared in Seattle, in Yakima and in Spokane. It flashed up to Winnipeg, down to Amarillo, across to Milwaukee and all the way to West Islip...
...life. Drought persisted in central and western Kansas, much of southwestern and central Nebraska. Most of Colorado and New Mexico got little if any rain. Even the newly dampened land would need more rain to insure the crops that were being so blithely planted this week. "But," the Amarillo Daily News reported, "the people are grinning like a mule eating cactus...
...Santa Fe Railroad, one of the last big holdouts against the union shop, won an important round last week in its ten-month battle (TIME, Feb. 1) against 16 A.F.L. non-operating unions. In Amarillo, District Judge E. C. Nelson ruled in favor of 13 non-union Santa Fe workers who brought suit charging that proposed union-shop contracts were illegal under Texas' "right to work" act, even though they are specifically permitted by a 1951 amendment to the National Railway Labor Act. Judge Nelson handed down a permanent injunction forbidding union-shop contracts between the Santa...
...Santa Fe is one of the nation's last major roads to hold out against union shop contracts, permitted under a 1951 amendment to the Railway Labor Act. Last week, in a courtroom in Amarillo, Texas, Santa Fe President Fred Gurley argued against the union shop in a suit filed by 14 Santa Fe workers. They asked that 16 A.F.L. railroad unions be permanently enjoined from enforcing proposed union shop contracts, and that the union shop be declared illegal...
...firm hand was needed to keep Texas from drowning in oil, and Thompson seemed the man for the job. The youngest lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F. during World War I, he returned to practice law in Amarillo and earned a reputation as a rugged in-fighter when he was elected mayor of Amarillo in 1929. When he was appointed to a vacancy on the commission in June 1932, the price of crude oil had collapsed, down from $1.10 to iof/ a barrel. Although engineers had warned that withdrawal of more than 400,000 bbls. a day would soon kill...