Word: freights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a roar, a wave of provincial protest against higher freight rates (TIME, April 12) broke last week against the federal government. For a moment the government staggered, then the skillful footwork of Mackenzie King got things right again. Because the case for higher rates, based on the railways' higher costs, was solid, the government stood pat; it ordered the new schedule to take effect immediately. Then it offered a concession...
...shot & killed Deputy Sheriff William E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. He earned pocket money as a newsboy, later as a cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. In high school he spent summers as a call-boy waking up railroaders for the S.P., did odd jobs as a freight hustler and farm hand, learned to play the clarinet in the school band. He still carries a card in the musicians' union...
...chiefs in the U.S., General Clay had radioed this assurance: "We will sit tight. We will not be provocative. . . . Evacuation to me is unthinkable." At week's end several U.S. and British freight trains got through to Berlin without being challenged. And, finally, the Russians grudgingly agreed to meet with the Western Powers to "clarify" their terms, if not alter them. For a time, it appeared, there would be an uneasy truce-until the Russians probed elsewhere. Patience and firmness had paid off again...
...fuel for Italy, remained tied up at the docks. No coal. Around the country, open hearth furnaces began to shut down. Production of pig iron, the raw material of industry, gradually declined. Washington extended its 25% cut in coal-burning passenger locomotives to the country's coal-burning freight engines. Some 400,000 soft-coal miners had already lost $60 million in wages. At week's end the coal strike was in its 14th...
Gales churned the Ohio River wildly. The wind blew 85 miles an hour in darkened, rain-battered Toledo, knocked over radio towers, derailed freight cars. As night fell, gales and torrential rain hit northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York. Finally, the storm blew...