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Late last week ex-Brakeman Jeffers proudly bounced an all-synthetic military tire before the Senate Agriculture Committee, added that the synthetic program was going so well that many substitute plans had been ash-canned, and he himself hoped to go back to his railroad by summertime. The once-ballyhooed guayule plan has been slashed from 200,000 acres to a paltry 15,000; schemes like cryptostegia vines, home-grown rubber trees and dandelions are headed the same way (see p, 54). Then he sent the hopes of U.S. motorists up: "By April 1944 . . . civilians will begin...
...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...
...Southern Pacific employed two women as blacksmiths' helpers. Union Pacific got its first woman engine cleaner, brakeman, tie cutter and turntable operator...
Teeth. At Ogdensburg, N.Y., a New York Central brakeman sneezed his teeth out a window, stopped the train, got them back after a search by trainmen and passengers...
Before the Eastern Presidents' Conference started after such rules last week, Martin Withington Clement, Pennsylvania R.R. boss, was on the trail. Two years ago he won repeal of a Pennsylvania law which put an extra brakeman on every passenger train of more than five cars, every freight over 50 cars. Clement knows the chances of avoiding at least a small pay raise this year are slim. But he also knows a good shakedown of the rules might save the roads enough to pay whatever increase is granted...