Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to campaign as the champion of labor. Six days before Labor Day, he fired off a message calling for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, extension of social security and health insurance, an increased minimum wage (from 40? to 75?). Then he climbed aboard his newly refurbished railroad car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to carry his message to a joint A.F.L. and C.I.O. rally in Detroit, to four other Michigan cities, and Toledo...
...Henry Morgan, who has bitten one sensitive sponsor after another, thus far has neither radio nor television plans. Says Morgan: "Nobody's asked me," New hopefuls this season include Commentator Eleanor Roosevelt (assisted by daughter Anna Boettiger); The Railroad Hour (operettas with Gordon MacCrae); The Little Immigrant, described as "situation comedy with an underlying pathos." Cecil B. DeMille hopes to back with an hour-long dramatic show...
...traffic was already being charged all it would bear, kept the present fare on DC-6s, wiping out the extra-fare differential and underselling the other lines. The new basic fares brought the U.S. average to 6? a mile (highest since 1935), compared to a 3? average for railroad coach fares...
...Railroad men yelped in pain as well as anger. What stung them most were murmurs by Government men that railroaders had infiltrated the Army & Navy transportation services and had been able to bill the Government to benefit their companies. Snapped New York Central's President Gustav Metzman: "The Government was not in any instance charged a higher rate than commercial shippers . . . I would like to testify to the conscientious service rendered by our railroad...
...week's end the railroads got a reprieve. Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked that his Intelligence officers be allowed to screen Clark's 4,000-page brief, lest potential enemies learn too much about the strategic use of the railroads. Railroad men hoped that Army red tape might delay the suit indefinitely...