Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rush to superhighways, some roadmen failed to give sufficient consideration to the fact that toll roads will pay only under quite specific conditions. The Pennsylvania Turnpike (which cost less to build because it followed the half-finished roadbed of Andrew Carnegie's old South Penn Railroad) has been a huge success because it is by far the best route through rough country. The New Jersey Turnpike has boomed because it serves an area of crushingly concentrated traffic. When such important factors are missing, toll roads...
...Dowd, whose father John Michael O'Dowd is publisher and owner of the News, kept his news columns as open as his mind. Recent example: the arrest and release last month of Clarence Mitchell, Washington head of the N.A.A.C.P., for entering the white waiting room of the Florence railroad station...
Actually, attempts to disobey a law in support of some larger cause are not at all unknown in American history. The Underground Railroad before the Civil War was clearly designed to side-track the Fugitive Slave Law and speed escaping slaves to Canada. Suffragettes, too, were willing to break ordinance after ordinance to extend the vote...
...Negroes today enjoy more rights than they did a half century ago. They can vote-if they aren't too aggressive about it. In a few states they can attend "white" colleges-if they are willing to accept "segregated" living quarters. In others they can use the same railroad waiting rooms as whites-provided they are interstate travelers. But in virtually every case, even these spotty and limited gains were not freely conceded by Southern whites; they were imposed on the South by the Federal Government spurred on by the Negroes themselves...
...Haven does not except to lose revenue by raising prices, according to Howard A. Moulton of the railroad's public relations department. He claimed that most members of the Association of Eastern Railroad Presidents, which submitted the petition, have lost money under the present fare setup...