Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baghdad Pact countries against Communist aggression. The announcer: Special U.S. Ambassador and Ike-Doctrine Salesman James P. Richards. The announcement: the U.S. will provide the pact's four Middle Eastern members (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey) with $12.5 million in Eisenhower Doctrine funds to spur "regional" highway, railroad, telecommunication projects. In Saudi Arabia, Richards scored heavily with King Saud, who bought deeper into the Eisenhower Doctrine by issuing a joint communique promising "to oppose Communist activities, other forms of imperialism and any other dangers that threaten peace and stability in the area...
...Particular attention is drawn to the Church of Don Basilio [i.e., the Mission of Faith, a small, offbeat, sect], which because of its visionary character has numerous proselytizers in the Holy City. Many converts have been made among gardeners in city parks and porters in railroad terminals...
Died. Freeman Wills Crofts, 77, British railroad engineer who first tinkered, during a 1919 illness, with a detective novel (The Cask) that eventually sold 100,000 copies, turned to full-time writing in 1929 and produced roughly a book a year thereafter (Inspector French's Greatest Case; Man Overboard), most featuring Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard; in Worthing, England...
Nearly one million railroad workers will be affected, as well as a couple of hundred thousand workers in the aircraft and electrical manufacturing industries. Their wage rates are geared partly by labor contracts to the government's index of living costs. The index has hit a new high for each of the last six months...
Their broad power to put legislation into effect gives them both legislative and judicial, as well as purely administrative functions. The Interstate Commerce Commisssion, for instance, is to see that railroad rates are "reasonable," while giving a "fair return" to the industry and "adequate" service to the customer. Its rulings eventually affect the price of every product shipped by rail and the cost of travel. It investigates violations of these regulations and its quasi-judicial powers to extend to adjudication of disputes arising under them. Thus the ICC serves as legislator, prosecuting attorney, and court, hardly a position in keeping...