Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Labyrinths. The Trumans were also invited, as usual, to a holiday dinner and reception at the grandiose farm home of their old friend C. Blevins Davis, onetime Independence schoolteacher who came into money on the death of his wife, Great Northern Railroad Heiress Marguerite Sawyer Hill. This set some local tongues wagging, since Host Davis had been sued by a New York salesman named Collins last autumn on the grounds that he had found Mrs. Hill and helped C. Blevins win her for his bride. The Trumans firmly ignored the gossip, went to the party, and seemed...
...camp's huts lives the Sokolowski family. They left their native Poland as the Red army moved in in 1944. The father, Jan, held a railroad job briefly, but now is unemployed. For seven years he has lived from camp to camp with his wife and four children: Olga, now 19; Roman, 18; Irena, 16; and Eugenia, 15. Recently he got an offer to move to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm near Buffalo. The family packed and got set to go. Then pale Olga pressed her flat chest against the X-ray plate: a spot...
Time Saver. With $6.50 worth of scrap metal, Marvin E. Brown, a mine foreman for Birmingham's Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., invented a new coal-handling device. The company found that the invention, an angled leg for the conveyor belt, saved two-thirds of the time ordinarily required to shift heavy conveyor pans used to carry coal from the working face to mine cars, eliminated the need for knocking out mine props while the conveyor pans were being moved. For the gadget, the company last week paid Brown...
...Phil Murray does not believe in the escalator clause (which links pay scales to the cost of living) because it can go both ways. If he did, steelworkers would have got an automatic wage boost along with 1,250,000 railroad workers, last week, when the cost of living shot to an alltime high. It was up .8% in November to 189.3% of the 1935-39 period...
APRIL-Dots & Dashes. In Superior, Wis., Morris Barieult, a railroad worker, explained in court why he set upon three bunkmates with an iron poker: he suspected they were plotting an attack on him by snoring in Morse code...