Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality to test a Supreme Court decision ending segregation in interstate commerce. With an inter-racial group of 15 men, he toured the Upper South, and procured $250 in a damage suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. There were a dozen arrests in two weeks during the trip. In 1948 he was part of a CORE group which challenged discrimination in a Greyhound Bus Co. terminal in Washington, D.C. The management closed the terminal and poured ammonia on the furniture and floor in order to make...
From experience as a combat commander in Europe during World War II and more recently in Korea, it is my firm conviction that our system of railroads is not likely to be completely knocked out by a nuclear attack, even for a moment. It is a matter of record that at Hiroshima and Nagasaki railroad-type structures stood up among the best, while at Hiroshima regular railroad service was resumed within 18 hours after the first atomic bomb was dropped...
...plant in Smyrna, Del. (pop. 2,346), Farm Fertilizer Manufacturer Warner W. Price, Jr. decided to speak his piece to the Interstate Commerce Commission about the proposed 22% boost in railroad freight rates. Price got off a letter to the ICC opposing the increase, but he soon found that to get the ICC's full attention he would have to spread out letters like a farmer covering the north 40 with Price products. The ICC wanted him to send exactly 62 copies of his letter -24 for the ICC Secretary, 25 for the Washington lawyer representing the railroads interested...
...oath taking, permission to educate their children as they wished and to conduct their economic affairs in their own way. From the vast Terrazas ranch in Chihuahua they bought more than 200,000 acres of land. In 1922, some 5,000 of the Canadian Mennonites arrived at the isolated railroad station of San Antonio de Arenales and set to work transforming the prairie. The job was not done easily. Water flowed into their wells from a, huge underground lake, but even with irrigation, wheat, their customary crop, refused to flourish. The revolutionary Pancho Villa still held sway in Chihuahua...
Marriage Revealed. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44, multimillionaire racehorse breeder (Native Dancer, Social Outcast) ; and Jean Cudahy Harvey, 20, of the railroad-restaurant and meat-packing families; he for the third time, she for the first; on March 12, in Mexico City...