Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
TIME credits me with the origin of the Rail Auto Travel Plan. Fact is, various ideas of coordinating automobile and railroad transportation have been suggested for many years but the New Haven Railroad is the first transportation company to devise a plan of this character. Credit should go to the New Haven and to all Hertz operators in its territory under the able leadership of R. S. Robie, Hertz man of Boston...
...witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent. Their antics-when the millionaire turns his great Danes loose on the pressagent, when the pressagent retaliates by buttering the tracks of the toy railroad, when a sleepy justice of the peace (Hugh Herbert), confusing the identities of the two young couples at their joint wedding, finally pronounces them "men and wives"-are in the best tradition of the cinema school established by My Man Godfrey and The Awful Truth...
...Chicago last week, three men-one little, two big-sat down with grim-faced representatives of 137 Class I railroads and 19 railroad unions. The three were the National Mediation Board, and their problem, in their own words, was the "biggest" the board has ever faced: to arbitrate the three-month-old deadlock between railroad managements' demand for and railroad workers' refusal of a 15% wage...
When U. S. railroads returned to private hands after the War, the Transportation Act of 1920 created a U. S. Railroad Labor Board of nine. Woodrow Wilson's sensible appointees were soon succeeded by the patronage appointees of Warren Harding. A strike of 400,000 railroad shopmen in 1922 thoroughly exposed the board's incompetence and in 1926 the Railway Labor Act replaced it with a five-man U. S. Board of Mediation. This failed to succeed because the law provided no penalties for evasion of the board's decisions and because Calvin Coolidge's appointees...