Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rail. At last, Majority Leader Scott Lucas decided to put a stop to all the talk. He presented a petition to end the debate by invoking cloture. It became Vice President Barkley's duty to rule on whether cloture could indeed be applied and the filibuster shut off at this point...
Ensconced in the high-backed chair on the dais, blinking down on excited Senators, Barkley remarked: "I feel like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he felt. He said if it weren't for the honor of the thing, he'd just as soon walk." He applied himself then to the South's ingenious entanglement, which was hard going even for sea lawyers...
...date. It urged that the power of the Department of Commerce be greatly increased by giving it the jurisdiction over all U.S. transportation, now scattered in a dozen bureaus. Under the Hoover plan, Commerce would take over: ¶ The Interstate Commerce Commission's executive powers over highway and rail traffic (including responsibility for safety and railroad consolidation plans). ¶ All functions of the Office of Defense Transportation. ¶ The Maritime Commission's operations involving shipping purchases, sales, loans and subsidies. ¶ Direction of the Public Roads Administration, now in the Federal Works Agency. ¶ Control of the Coast...
...long-suffering commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan on the dependably undependable Long Island Rail Road, the line is the target of countless bitter jokes-many founded on fact. In their time, the Long Island's trains have been delayed by stray dogs, wet leaves on the tracks, and sea gulls short-circuiting transformers. Its trains sometimes take the wrong switch and "get lost." Last week the comedy was taken to court. The Long Island's officers marched into Brooklyn's Federal Court and declared the road bankrupt, the first U.S. Class 1 railroad...
...Army sent him to Persia, as a colonel, to unsnarl the rail shipments of U.S. material to the Soviet Union. He did so well that General Eisenhower brought him to England as assistant supply boss for the Normandy invasion, later put him in charge of the First Military Railway Service in France. At war's end, Stoddard quickly moved up to U.P.'s general manager. Last week, when President George F. Ashby retired at 63, U.P.'s Chairman E. Roland Harriman and his fellow directors named Stoddard president...