Word: rail-road
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Public concern and Presidential indignation, however, have focused largely on the melodrama of strikes rather than on the tragedy of unemployment. The newspaper dispute, the East Coast dock strike, and a prospective walkout by the rail-road employees served to evoke the image of "featherbedding" by reactionary union leaders (ironically, the Typographers' rank-and-file now demand more advantageous terms than Mr. Powers had settled...
...destruction. Durant, the head barber, runs his miniature community with a social-register sense of propriety. Certain customers get preference over others, and some are told, when they begin to realize they are being ignored, "Better go down the street. You got a good barber down towards the rail-road station." Those who finally make the inner circle are fitted for the symbol of acceptance--a $2 beer mug. It is a neat, compact little world, but Peter's fondness for a local loudmouth eventually blows it apart...
Sarah Lawrence co-eds must depend on their dates and the New Haven rail-road for transportation to New York, since car permission is rarely granted. Safety, inadequate parking facilities, and a desire to keep the college residential are the stated reasons for this regulation, which is unpopular among the students. One dean added that banning cars has the extra advantage of eliminating one difference between the financial haves and have-nots...
Most railroad spaces are taken, although one can fight the crowds for unreserved coach seats. Several travel plans have been developed to lower rail-road rates by acquiring tickets on a "mass basis," but even these are filled...
Insurance companies, Canavan charged, have advertised in the newspapers against this bill in an attempt to "rail-road" its rejection through the House...