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...injunction presumably would apply until the railway wage dispute has been settled. It was no nearer settlement last week than it was eight weeks ago, when Judge Goldsborough issued his temporary order and the Army took over nominal operation of the roads. The engineers, firemen and switchmen still wanted more than double the 15½?-an-hour raise which a fact-finding board had recommended as a fair settlement. Their demands were louder than ever now because, they said, even while they had been arguing, the cost of living had gone up. The conductors and trainmen, who had accepted...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who has twice cut John Lewis down to human size, gave the railway brotherhoods a piece of his mind last week. He made permanent his temporary order prohibiting the railway firemen, engineers and switchmen from going on strike...
...order of the 80th Congress, postal authorities prepared designs of 15 new stamp issues memorializing, among other things, the U.S. poultry industry, the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of New York City, volunteer firemen and the five "civilized" Indian tribes of Oklahoma...
Shortly before midnight I accompanied Colonel Hyland on a mission to clear the road from the city for incoming aid. With the heat of the street scorching the soles of our feet and smoke bringing tears to our eyes, we walked through the bright red city. We passed Japanese firemen trying to pump water from the palace moat, the only remaining source in the whole city. After the B-29s, people had taken refuge in the waters of the moat, hoping to escape the flames; hundreds of bodies had been found there. The people of Fukui say that tonight...
Married. Barbara Jo Walker, 22, Sunday-school-teaching Miss America (1947); and John Vernon Hummel, 24, medical intern; in Memphis. Some 2,000 guests were invited to the wedding; police held back the uninvited, while firemen's searchlights lit the Methodist Church like a Hollywood premi...