Word: antigo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shack in the railroad yards at Antigo, Wis. last week sat four railroadmen: a fireman, a conductor, a brakeman and a flagman. All together, they collect pay totaling $110 a day, not counting fringe benefits. Their job: doing nothing. Earlier this year, the Chicago & North Western Railroad decided to eliminate one of the two switching locomotives at Antigo because there was not enough work to keep them busy. But the road may not remove the idled crew without union permission, and permission had not been given...
...problem cannot be solved overnight by any catchall solution. But the first step must be made soon if the U.S. railroads do not want to continue to lose business to their competitors. The four idle men in the shack at Antigo make a shocking example of what can happen when an industry loses its ability to change with the times...
GEORGE WOLCOTT Antigo...
...legislation this year). Republican Durfee, almost certain to get Senate approval for the job, will succeed Ross Rizley, who has been appointed a federal judge in Oklahoma. No aviation expert but well-grounded in the legal complexities of transportation, Durfee started as an attorney in Antigo, Wis. in 1927, became a member of the Wisconsin PUC in 1951, chairman two years later. ¶ Sir Miles Thomas, 59, who resigned as chairman of British Overseas Airways Corp. (TIME, April 2), signed on as a director of Monsanto Chemicals Ltd., British subsidiary of St. Louis' Monsanto Chemical Co. He will become...