Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admittedly, many of the regulations currently enforced on the nation's railways smack of the days when passenger trains averaged 20 miles per hour and rail was the only convenient mode of transportation. Train crews now need travel only 100 miles to earn a full day's pay; an engineer making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent...
Management proposes to raise the mileage limit to 160 miles per day, thus cutting out many "division stops" and reducing the number of employees necessary. They also hope to save $200 million annually by eliminating the position of fireman, as was done after a prolonged strike on the Canadian Pacific Railway last year...
...eventual settlement of the strike may come through compulsory arbitration by the government, according to Professor Charles R. Cherington, who often acts as a consultant in railroad disputes. Although railways carry only 50 per cent of the nation's freight now, this is a significant half which must move to keep the national economy from halting completely. Cherington does deem the management demand for complete overhaul of work rules "extreme," and proposes instead a renegotiation of individual jobs...
Statistics totals after eight games rate the varsity football team comfortably ahead of its opponents in every department except passing. Crimson rushing has been 150 per cent as successful as the other teams'. The totals: H OPP. 125 First Downs 105 1743 Yards Rushing 1032 519 Yards Passing 822 98 Passes Attempted 151 39 Passes Completed 63 9 Had Intercepted 9 42 Punts 42 37.6 Punting Average 34.2 10 Fumbles Lost...
...view of this sentiment, she continued, it was "surprising" to find that over 30 per cent of last year's Radcliffe Sophomores were in unmixed groups. No comparable statistics are available yet for this year, since final decision always rest with the individual department...