Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that night the nation got a foretaste of what a railroad strike would be like. Trains clanked into towns-and stopped. Freights stood still on many a main line. At Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station many rail workers went to their lockers, put away their uniform caps and walked off. At Grand Central Station the Twentieth Century Limited was dead on its wheels seven hours after the President's announcement. So were hundreds of trains across the nation, in the worst passenger jam of modern railroading history...
...campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat to Europe. So far, the money has been largely a waste...
...YORK-The New York Stock Exchange will be closed tomorrow because of the rail strike, its first shutdown in history caused by labor disturbances, the Board of Governors announced...
...million for Geneva, including inventory, said it would spend another $43,500,000 to give Geneva facilities for peacetime steel products, put Geneva in the front rank of steel producers. But U.S. Steel added a slight "if" to its bid: there would have to be reductions in Western rail rates on steel. Said Big Steel: "Any bidder on Geneva Steel sees a need for reduction in freight rates from Geneva to the Coast. The economic future of the plant rests on these reductions...
...plant would be sold to U.S. Steel. Privately they have favored this for months, because they think that Big Steel, which operated the plant during the war, is the best one to do it in peace. Moreover, they think Big Steel has a better chance of getting rail rates cut, bringing cheaper steel to the West Coast...