Word: featherbedding
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The advice was easy to give, but harder to follow. U.S. railroads, which last year spent $279,400,000 on dieselization and this year will spend as much more, had already gone a long way toward improving efficiency. But the diesels were more efficient partly because they required less manpower...
¶ Sent to the White House a bill forbidding Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo to: 1) tax canned music, 2) ban amateurs, 3) featherbed on U.S. radio.
Young, husky John Keeshin went to work driving a horse-drawn truck when he was 13. In the next 32 years, he founded and built Keeshin Freight Lines, Inc. into the biggest privately owned trucking company in the U.S., with 3,000 employes, 2,000 trucks and 17,000 miles...
To most U.S. railroad executives the whole affair was utterly fantastic. A little pipsqueak railroad had soundly beaten the giant Brotherhoods, slashed their demands by 75%. Not in decades had a big road extracted more than a handful of fluff from the Brotherhood featherbed. There was only one big hitch...
The arbitrator last week finally settled with the Brotherhoods, but most of the stuffing had been taken out of their featherbed. The Brotherhoods were awarded wage rates and working rules which would have put the April payroll at $21,678-$3,200 more than McNear's operating cost.