Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britt, Iowa, hung its bunting out again last week; the hoboes were coming to town. They cannonballed from east & west, bedded down in the town park, the jungle under the railroad water tank, in freight cars. Scholarly Roger Payne, 72, and plump Polly Pep were exceptions. Payne slept in the school doorway; Polly, the only woman delegate to the bindle stiffs' first postwar convention, picked a haystack...
...five-man supercommittee (headed by U.S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed in North China. Since the Communist grip on North China -and on the main railroad arteries-was a major issue between Yenan and Nanking, this condition was not so simple as it seemed...
While the peacemakers dickered, China's civil war raged on. Both sides announced important gains. The Nationalists claimed the capture of Chengteh, capital of mountainous, strategic Jehol province. The Communists claimed the capture of the railroad junction of Tatung, near China's Great Wall, after a four weeks' siege...
Trouble on the Rails. But trouble still loomed ahead. The steel industry, now booming along at about 90% of capacity, had only two weeks' supply of scrap on hand, might have to shut some mills soon. The biggest threat was a shortage of the railroad cars on which most of U.S. business rolls. Example: in Auburn, N.Y., International Harvester Co. was producing enough farm machinery to fill 45 freight cars a day, but only two empty cars a day were backing onto its sidings. The tremendous job of moving the bumper crops made the shortage worse. Millions of bushels...
Said Southern Pacific in newspaper ads: "The airlines compare their fares with railroad fares and come to the conclusion that air travel is cheaper. ... In comparing fares [they] always add in the cost of a Pullman lower berth. A comparison of a seat in a plane and a berth on the train is the same as comparing a chair with...