Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, railroad strikes have often brought White House intervention. Examples: in 1943 President Roosevelt personally worked out an agreement giving railroad workers an extra 5? an hour; in 1946 President Truman coerced a settlement by threatening, in a nationwide broadcast, to order the Army to break a railroad strike (he also proposed to Congress that strikers be drafted into the Army). One result of such presidential action was to make the National Mediation Board, set up under the Railway Labor Act, little more than a front organization, with both rail labor and management looking hungrily toward the White House...
...inspection is the key to sincerity in nuclear disarmament. Malik's idea of an international authority was a staff of inspectors operating from "control posts in big ports, railroad junctions, motor roads and airdromes." These inspectors would "watch that there are no dangerous concentrations of ground forces or of air and naval forces," and "within the bounds of the control functions they exercise, would have unhindered access at any time to all objects of control." This kind of pretense at control lends itself to the absurdities of the truce inspection teams in Korea and Indo-China: unless the host...
...more likely to be heard playing bassoon, English horn, flute, clarinet, oboe, with a discreet French horn on hand as well. Leader McKay plays nifty bassoon, fast and, when necessary, dirty. The rest of the crew has shrieking fun with sound effects (What a Way to Run a Railroad!}, and swinging fun with Those That Live by the Swordfish Die by the Sword fish...
Outside the little northern Texas town of Krum last week, a platoon of railroad workers spaced gft. ties along a new track bed, spotted rails over tie plates and pounded home the spikes. This was no ordinary track-laying; the gandy dancers were laying the longest stretch of new line-49 miles-in the U.S. in 20 years...
...line will connect the Santa Fe Railroad's Chicago-Galveston main line directly with fast-growing Dallas, cut 63 miles off a roundabout route south of Fort Worth for Dallas-bound freight, save up to half a day on delivery. Passengers will also collect a dividend. Starting next December, Dallas residents, who now go ignominiously to Fort Worth to catch the Texas Chief, will board it in their own city...