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...locomotive engineers staged a one-day strike that snarled commuter traffic from one end of the London metropolitan area to the other. "We're only working three days a week because of the power cuts, and it takes me nearly that long to get up and back from Chertsey," said one irate commuter. "By the time I get home, the telly's gone off." (All TV stations have been ordered to sign off at 10:30 p.m.) The trainmen, who have refused to work overtime and Sundays for the past five weeks, walked out after the government threatened...
...until his 1941 appointment to boss Britain's rapidly expanding aircraft industry, a job he did well until he was ousted in early 1942 for impolitically suggesting that England should be happy that German Nazis and Russian Communists were killing each other off; following a heart attack; in Chertsey, England...
Last Roll. In Chertsey, England, mourners carried out the deathbed request of Thomas Elston, drove in his funeral procession the steamroller he had driven and loved for 38 years...
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