Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tentative arrangements with the Boston and Maine Railroad for transporting 400 students to and from the University's community at Fort Devens were revealed Tuesday by Edward L. Francis, director of the Housing Office's field workers...
...work and reap the credit for settling the steel, coal and railroad strikes the President called in professorial White House Adviser John Steelman, let his Labor Secretary languish in the background...
...bring about was produced by the black market: the village went up the crag. The daughters of Dr. Faure, impoverished by war and inflation, had turned the castle into a hotel, stayed on to manage it. Among their first customers were bashful, leathernecked Pierre Barrière, a railroad worker, and his pert, white-satined bride, Jane Cantarel. Their horny-handed wedding guests, stimulated by wine and altitude, made the bishops' terrace ring with the raucous Les Montagnards (The Mountain People...
Volume Down, Profits Down. Reports of most companies in the steel, auto, coal and railroad industries showed the results of strikes and reconversion troubles. Gross income and net earnings were far below 1945 levels. But the effect of the strikes on earnings was cushioned by the carry-back provisions of the tax laws...
Zeckendorf, who has helped to expand the assets of his firm tenfold in the last eight years, likes to dismiss his many big operations (in hotels, theaters, apartments, oil wells, piers, night clubs, a small railroad, and smaller shopping centers) as "making grapefruit out of lemons." This grapefruit, which he hopes to pluck by 1948, would be his juiciest...