Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arkansas, 55 factories employing almost 3,500 persons were closed because of the MoPac shutdown; farmers in the Kansas City area reported heavy losses because of lack of transportation for their livestock. Confronted with the certainty of such distress, the MoPac strikers had refused to work through the National Railroad Adjustment Board, which is established by law for the settlement of just such matters...
...industries: Gulf Oil, Koppers, Aluminum Co. of America, the Mellon Bank and the General Reinsurance Co., which have total assets of more than $3.3 billion, and in which the Mellons have absolute or dominant control; First Boston Corp., Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in all of which the Mellons have large interests...
Looking back 48 years to his birth in a railroad worker's family in Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought his romantic profile and even more romantic rhythms into Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, and built up a devoted radio audience when he was sponsored by Lady Esther cosmetics. As a radio fixture, he has piled up more than 10,000 programs...
...Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Show Boat, with Dorothy Kirsten...
...good Senator first wanted to build his college at the town of Mayfield but insisted that Mayfield become dry. When the citizens objected, he moved the site to the neighboring hamlet of Pale alto, which obligingly passed an anti-liquor law. By moving the local railroad station from Mayfield to Pale Alto, the former was easily reduced to a suburb of the latter. Pale Alto is still a dry town, and a group of bars do a wonderful business just across the town line...