Word: railroadman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a U.S. railroadman believes that the answer to the problem lies not in charges or recriminations, but in a joint effort on both sides to discover how featherbedding practices can be eliminated without undue hardship. The industry favors a plan adopted by Canadian railroads, which has helped cut down featherbedding by not replacing firemen working on freights or in the yards who have died or retired. Privately, many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions...
...railroadman's railroadman, big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), affable Allen Greenough won a reputation at the Pennsy for his forcefulness and ability to remain calm in every circumstance. Born in San Francisco, he went to Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. before joining Pennsy as an engineering trainee in 1928, highballed up the corporate track, was boosted to vice president in 1955. Along the route, he distinguished himself by making fast decisions, stopping the buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding...
Help or Else. Almost every top railroadman went to the hearings armed with a set of recommendations designed to ease the railroads' ills. Among them: allow the railroads the full cost of carrying the U.S. mail, now carried at a loss; eliminate the 10% federal tax on passenger fares, passed during the war to discourage travel, and the 3% tax on freight; encourage railroad mergers; allow the roads to diversify more widely into other forms of transportation, such as trucks and planes. Said the Central's President Perlman: "If we fail to convince you of the desperate need...
...Gale Benton Aydelott, 41, was named executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (his predecessor was Alfred Perlman, who moved on 18 months ago to become president of Robert R. Young's New York Central). Son of a railroadman and educated at the University of Illinois, Aydelott highballed up through the ranks from laborer to gang foreman and track inspector, became trainmaster in 1943 and general manager last year...
...Hundreds of new, unnecessary jobs . . . The old bosses weren't much good, but at least you knew who they were. And they never put experienced chaps under some young cocksparrer from Whitehall," complained a railroadman in Coventry...