Word: dieselization
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...strike lay almost five years of inflexible dispute. The railway carriers have long insisted on their right to change the "work rules" for employees. Basically, this meant that management wanted to end the featherbedding practices for which the railway brotherhoods are notorious-such as their insistence upon "firemen" on diesel engines...
Gwen L English, 45, a greying Perry Mason fan who works as a bookkeeper for an oil company; her husband is a diesel electrician for the Santa Fe Railway...
...most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from the center of a building going up-and climbs along with the superstructure...
...built a chicken-feed plant along its line, leased it to an operator and began a feed haul from the plant to the Maine Central. In Texas, where every one of the 13 short-line railroads is making a profit, Veteran Railroader Joseph P. Kerr bought the tenmile, three-diesel Georgetown Railroad five years ago, persuaded nearly a dozen plants to locate along his line, and last year netted...
...such "featherbedding." Last week-after two earlier U.S. presidential boards had wrestled with the problem-a congressionally appointed panel awarded the railroads a signal victory. In the first peacetime arbitration ever imposed by Congress, the board ruled that almost all of the 33,000 firemen who work aboard diesel-powered freight and yard trains are "not necessary" and should be gradually phased...