Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worked constantly to win business confidence for his Democratic Administration without losing labor's. The result was an unprecedented extension of the national prosperity, sustained by his personal intervention in bringing about a rail settlement that seems likely to set a pattern for years to come, and spurred by his success in getting an $11.5 billion tax cut through Congress...
Angry Lieutenants. In fact, as the nation looked around last week, it was faced with a sudden storm of labor turmoil. After 12 to 15 months of comparative labor calm, strikes or the threat of strikes suddenly hovered over such important industries as paper, rail roads, shipping, meat packing and steel...
...teetotaling Lutherans of St. Matthew's were accustomed to using grape juice instead of wine at their Communion services, and were willing to adopt the other churches' usage of ordinary loaf bread instead of unleavened wafers. The Presbyterians, in turn, agreed to take Communion at the altar rail in stead of in the pew. Both the Methodists and the Presbyterians accepted the phrasing of the Apostles' Creed used at St. Matthew's-Christ descended into Hell (rather than Hades), and the Holy Catholic (not Christian) Church...
Dowling of New York, successful developer of Pittsburgh's Gateway Center and Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, came to the rescue. Called in by the railroad as a consultant, he approved the superblock with underground connections to the rail transit outlets ? the Pennsylvania suburban station and a stop on the Market Street subway ? and added the idea of a bus terminal at the west end of Penn Center to anchor...
...twenty-four of thirty "must" pieces of legislation is unquestioned. His sense of the possible is remarkably true since he never flinched in his support of the two major bills, Civil Rights and the Tax Cut. His ability to conciliate when necessary enabled him to settle a threatened national rail strike without compulsory arbitration, a feat which had eluded countless negotiators. And his sense of direction may be inferred from the anti-poverty program, which was a creative means of binding together and passing disparate pieces of needed legislation...