Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, unions representing some 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers (clerks, shopmen, telegraphers, etc.) demanded a 40-hour, five-day week (instead of a 48-hour, six-day week), a "third-round" 25?-an-hour wage boost, extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. Negotiations were soon mired in argument. After mid-January the unions had the right to strike. Instead they continued to negotiate...
...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 Guard, now in the Treasury Department...
Most startling, perhaps, for U.S. moviegoers are the shots of India's modern commerce and industry: the streamlined tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...
Only the day before, the New York Public Service Commission had hastily granted the Long Island a $3.2 million-a-year boost in its commutation fares, the third boost since 1918. But the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island lock, stock & comic book, had decided to quit footing the bills anyway: the Long Island would have to shift for itself. With only $60,000 cash left in its till, there was nothing left for the Long Island but to ask the court to appoint trustees and reorganize...
...worried Pennsy finally appointed a general manager to run things on the spot. But there was no improvement in earnings and little in service. Passengers still had to line up for the trains, were often still packed in cars as tightly as books in a case. The railroad, which now owes the Pennsy $53 million, was far from worthless. "Even if it were sold for scrap," said a Pennsy official, "it would bring $65 million...