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...wheel was invented, some cave dwellers undoubtedly complained that ruts would ruin the footpaths. Many millenniums later, in the 1840s, farmers of New York's Suffolk County rebelled against another recent invention; they tore up railway tracks, put the torch to depots and caused wrecks by loosening rail ties. The iron horse was evil, they complained; its sparks set fields afire, its bells and noisy clatter shocked cows into withholding milk, and its soot soiled laundry. Decades later, the first autos were denounced for scaring horses and for spewing objectionable fumes...
Dutch union members, after staging the worst wave of strikes in three decades, won the right to have a voice in the investment policies of their companies. In neighboring Belgium, which just had its first rail strike in 17 years, a series of five 24-hour walkouts is scheduled to dramatize labor objections to rising sales taxes. In Italy, unions are threatening to block any further progress on Premier Giulio Andreotti's austerity plan. Even in West Germany, normally a bastion of labor harmony, Trade Union Chief Heinz Oskar Vetter warned that "the honeymoon is over" with the government...
...storm fostered a new spirit of camaraderie in the city. Bars were jammed with customers who could not get home. At the Rail Bar, Bartender Casimer Kania ordered ten patrons to leave as each new group of ten entered; he feared the floor would cave in under the crowd's weight. At Salvatore's Italian Gardens Restaurant in Lancaster, free sandwiches for everyone replaced costly Chateaubriand. Fire departments set up soup and spaghetti lines. The Salvation Army served meals to 25,000 people, clothed 4,000, gave medical supplies to 3,000. Citizens offered their snowmobiles for emergency...
Through all this, the trains run fantastic distances-usually on time. Since most intercity travelers in Russia go by rail, Soviet engineers have long since learned to beat the bugs that so often stall U.S. commuter railroads...
...million gal. of fuel oil stalled on the Mississippi, 400,000 gal. blocked on the Ohio near Aurora, Ind., and another 400,000 gal. stuck in the river near Paducah, Ky. Electric utilities sent out crews armed with hammers and iron bars to smash the frozen coal loose from rail cars. "It's absolutely miserable work," said Detroit Edison Co. Vice President Walter J. McCarthy Jr. Strapped for fuel, his firm at one point was turning out only 250,000 kilowatts, less than one-tenth of its normal production. At one Cincinnati plant, the slippery coal would not stick...