Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring circus halted in mid-show: 25,000 loaded freight cars stood dead on the tracks and 93,750 through passengers were marooned. Muskegon, Mich, felt the strike too: one 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars were tied up. It was the same at Fargo, N.D. (where the Great Northern's crack Empire Builder ground to a stop) and at high little towns on the mountain divisions and in the yards at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...
Johnston, onetime callboy, engine wiper, fireman and engineer on the Great Northern, had been a B. of L.E. official 16 years when he became its Grand Chief Engineer (a title he loves to roll on his tongue) in 1925. Besides the title, he also inherited the union's sour financial ventures-notably a bank and a $15,000,000 burst bubble in Florida real estate. His inaugural address: "I am no banker...
Tundra Theater. The new plan, prepared by the U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, called for the same close cooperation in peace for the defense of northern North America as had existed during the war. The two countries would maintain defense bases and weather stations on the roof of the continent; they would devise and make suitable equipment; their forces would be coordinated, trained (see below) and armed with the same arctic weapons. If the tundras ever faced invasion, U.S. and Canadian troops would man the arctic defenses together...
...teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by last year's transport crisis, commemorated the split in 1845 of Southern and Northern Baptists over slavery...
Unmindful of Appomattox, the Baptists have been content to remain divided, because: 1) Southern Baptists are generally more Calvinist-i.e., hard-shelled-than the Northern variety; 2) basic Baptist policy abhors organization and church discipline. Baptists will cautiously unite to form a "conference," but not a Church. "Messengers" rather than delegates attend the conventions, which make no rules or decisions that might hobble the independence of each local congregation. (For similar reasons, the Southern Baptist Convention is the biggest Protestant group that refuses to join the Federal Council of Churches...