Word: railroadmen
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...some 200 Army camps and posts, A.A.R. and railroadmen have gone over the Army's lists, showing the length and dates of leave and the destination of each soldier. For each soldier an itinerary has been prepared to his home and back (some camps will paste these to each ticket). For each special car and special train, there is a detailed timetable. On all trains M.P.s will try to keep order...
...trouble for the roads with the connivance of the Army. Congressman Hall (who has a brother at Fort Benning) introduced a bill that would help some 800,000 draftees get home for Christmas. If they do, many a would-be civilian traveler might not. To handle this fearsome load, railroadmen insisted on a staggered 16-day schedule, last week huddled over the problem with the War Department...
...July 1939 the House authorized an investigation of NLRB, to be led by Virginia's Howard W. Smith, an oldfashioned, seldom-spoken Democrat whose district is rural except for about 2,000 Alexandria railroadmen who always vote against him anyway, if they have an alternative. "Judge" Smith's country-lawyer shrewdness was underrated only by New Dealers, who laughed at his wing collar, ribboned pince-nez and air of extreme, Coolidge-like caution...
...business well enough to go in further, thought it was a good idea to put some millions of its enormous resources into buying a piece of Pullman Co. Pullman, No. 1 freight and passenger car builder, can produce 2,370 passenger cars a year, 74,700 freight cars. Conservative railroadmen shuddered, in spite of G. M.'s cheap financing aid, efficient engineering methods, at the idea that an automobile outsider should shoulder into the railroad aristocracy. To not so spry U. S. rail-engineering, it would hold out the promise of a good shaking up at the hands...
...Railroadmen thought the accident might have been due to insufficient water in the boiler. Last week the disabled locomotive stood boarded up at Xenia, Ohio, awaiting inspection by the Interstate Commerce Commission...