Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have inflamed against Israel? The Jews' hopes of a deal are pinned on Abdullah of Transjordan, whose British paid and trained Arab Legion bolsters up his position as Arab spokesman and leaves him free to compromise. Ironically, it is the British subsidy to Abdullah (against which the Zionists rail) that offers the best chance of attaining the understanding with the Arabs essential to Israel's future peace and commerce...
Under the Willows. From Tiehling to Hsinmin it is two days, via Mukden, where, as refugees note, "faces are bitter and prices even higher than in Changchun." At Hsinmin the Nationalist lines end again. South of that rail city lies the most terrible san-pu-kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout...
...retail equivalent: up to $1.25 a ton). Though hard coal producers had raised prices only a month ago to cover higher wages, one of the biggest of them, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., Inc., raised the ante again, by as much as $1.10 a ton. A few hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission to boost passenger fares an average of 17% (a total of about $61,000,000 a year). By passengers' standards, it meant that coach travel was now as expensive (3? a mile...
...Fortunato Ornelar Anguiano, a 52-year-old dishwasher, walked out on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, borrowed a cigarette from a passerby, lit it, took one drag, leaped up on the bridge rail, flipped the cigarette away and jumped. He was the 100th to die by jumping in the eleven years since the bridge was built...
...undermining its "social and civic responsibility" and "creating the seeds of depression." Taking 1930 living standards as 100, the bank reckoned that the average coal miner was now up to 191, the auto worker to 132, the teacher to 109, while the small stockholder was down to 79, the rail executive to 78, the pensioner to 65, the wealthy stockholder...