Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized labor, chafing under the price rises, had largely confined itself to demanding federal price controls. Last week's strikes (mostly small ones) were largely the result of demands and disputes which predated Korea. Example: the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors pulled a five-day "token" strike in the big Louisville, Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul railroad terminals to win 17-month-old pay demands. Big mass-production unions, however, were now getting together charts and statistics to support their claims to lusty wage boosts. Phil Murray's 1,000,000 United Steelworkers were...
...knocked many of the stocks off the bargain counter. In five days last week, the Dow-Jones industrial average moved up 4.20 to 219.23; this week it pushed up nearly another point to 220.21, just 8 points below the peak established before the Korean war broke out. The railroad average did even better: it went to 63.39, its highest point since July...
Tickets, Please. In Runcorn, England, James J. McCandless of Glasgow was fined ?2 for trying to bilk the railroad, after he admitted that he had climbed through a train window and hung outside the car to avoid the conductor when he came through to punch tickets...
...week's end the B-29s switched back to tactical targets, hit the battered Seoul rail yards with 100 tons of bombs, and bombed railroad bridges to the south. There were indications that the North Korean air force, which has been lying low for weeks, might be getting reinforcements from Russia. F-80 Shooting Stars, twice raiding Kimpo airfield near Seoul last week, counted more than a score of La7 and Yak fighters which had not been there a few days before. The Americans shot up nine of the newcomers...
Neither Fancy's confident talk nor his building program impressed Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson.* Said he last week: "The railroad statements are misleading ... The railroad plant today, compared to the size of the job it has to perform, is not nearly as good as in 1941. I would say that the outlook on the freight-car situation today is gloomier than it ever has been...