Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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: G. P. McN. was still minus his railroad...
...bill folds. There are three other pieces of green paper, worth approximately one dollar apiece, snuggled in beside it, but don't touch them: they are for your athletic locker. And don't worry about getting home in September. Rumor bath it that gas will be abundant and hitch-hiking profitable by that time. No: just pull out the ten spot and slide it to the gent across the desk, paste your picture on the card he gives you, and squirm...
...next month Excalibur, with its sister ships, will provide six transatlantic schedules' weekly as Am Ex joins Pan American and British Overseas Airways as a full-fledged Atlantic operator. Biggest hitch: Am Ex has no U.S. mail contract, main spring of every successful U.S. airline...
Graebner is just going back to the newsfront (to Russia this time) after a six months' hitch in New York giving TIME'S news from England the on-the-spot feel that only a man who knows all the leaders of Britain could give...
...Only hitch in the program was the failure of La Cadena to pick up President Rios of Chile, President Baldomir of Uruguay. President Rios canceled...