Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down Rails. The railroads were a prime example. Rail profits have been slipping steadily since 1942, unable to outrace rising operating costs. But in 1945, under the weight of fast amortization, the drop was breathtakingly sharp. The Association of American Railroads reported that net profits of Class-I roads dropped to $453,000,000, more than $200,000,000 under...
George Plummer McNear Jr. does not believe in obeying a law that he hates. His 239-mile Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad was returned to him last October, after 42 months of Government operation under seizure. Immediately his union rail employes struck. The line has been strike-bound ever since. George McNear refused to negotiate". He said he would see the railroad and himself go broke first...
...lines thus caroled that the worst travel jam in U.S. history was about over. The Office of Defense Transportation chimed in. On Feb. 15, U.S. airlines can stop setting aside 70% of their eastbound transcontinental space for servicemen. On March 15, ODT restrictions on Pullman runs and on advance rail reservations will...
Born. To Jay Gould III, 26, wartime AAFlyer, great-grandson of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould, also a flyer in his day and way, and Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Actor Nigel Bruce: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Bruce...
...bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched its atrocity show. (The four in the dock sat bolt upright, clenching the rail before them...