Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of his busy week, President Eisenhower found time to see his old friend Governor Thomas Dewey, who came down from New York to protest the "unprecedented interference" of the Interstate Commerce Commission with Dewey's efforts to reorganize the bankrupt Long Island Rail Road. The Pennsylvania Railroad had applied to the ICC for a 25% rate increase on the Long Island, which it owns. Dewey felt that, since the Long Island lies wholly within the State of New York, the ICC had no jurisdiction -especially no jurisdiction to raise commuter fares on the residents of two heavily Republican...
...subject of segregation in the public pre-college schools. The decision that has long been used by Southern states as the guide on segregation is Plessy v. Ferguson, a transportation case. It arose on June 7, 1892, when Homer Adolph Plessy bought a ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad, from New Orleans to Covington, La. Plessy, seven-eighths white and one-eighth Negro, took a seat in the white coach on the segregated train. When he refused to move, he was taken off and jailed. The case reached the Supreme Court in 1896, and the court ruled that Louisiana...
...initial training at the station for which they are employed, after which they receive six months of continuation training on the job until fully qualified. Duties require not only knowledge of their own company's air routes, policies, and procedures, but also those of other airlines, bus, and railroad facilities. They are required to handle ticket sales, confirm space availability, issue tickets, and make up cash reports on tickets, sales. An agent's starting salary is $239 a month, with maximum of $360 possible...
...Cech took a desperate chance. Armed with their tools and Marian's lumberyard identification, they marched straight up to the stationmaster and told him that they had been sent to expedite a carload of lumber urgently needed at Trieste. The gamble paid off. Soon afterward, thanks to a railroad official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching beer, the three generations of fugitive Cechs rolled over the U.S. border into Linz. Next stop: Earlham, Iowa...
Like Tight Little Island, Titfield Thunderbolt catches the efforts of a small village trying to thwart the stuffiness of legal procedure. Faced with losing their venerated by uneconomical railroad service, the population decides to buy the line and operate it themselves. Since the train provides a convivial place to drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive...