Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five trains on the nationalized railway system. Close to 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen struck May 29 for a wage increase that would add little to their weekly pay packets but would preserve the differential between their "skilled" wage rate and that of nearly 400,000 railroad workers including porters, signalmen and gandy dancers...
COAL PIPELINE, first for the industry, will be built by Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. to get around high railroad freight rates in the Great Lakes area. Costing approximately $10 million, the pipeline will run 108 miles between the coal company's Georgetown, Ohio mining properties and the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. plant at Eastlake, near Cleveland. It will carry as much as 1,200,000 tons of "slurry" (pulverized coal mixed with water) annually at an estimated $1 a ton cheaper than rail freight. Completion date: late...
...SANTA FE RAILROAD, longest in the U.S. (TIME, May 23), will expand again. For $9,963,000 the Santa Fe bought 73,800 shares (82%) of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad from the estate of George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...
JOHN L. LEWIS' mineworkers will join the merged C.I.O. and A.F.L., predicts Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the C.I.O.'s Amalgamated Clothing Workers, who also says that the railroad brotherhoods will eventually join in the united labor movement. Together, the mineworkers and the railroad unions would add another 1,000,000 members to the 15 million already in the merged organizations...
Exactly one year after he won control of the New York Central Railroad, pugnacious Robert R. Young and his stockholders set out to celebrate his first birthday as boss. For the 800 stockholders who gathered in Albany for the annual meeting last week, the party turned out to be a rough and rowdy celebration...