Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bumming is tough. You just can't go up and ask a man for a dime: he knows you can't get nothin' for a dime any more. Trouble is there are too many jobs offered along Madison Street. The railroads are doing everything except promising vice-presidencies. You can get 84?an hour with $1.50 a day for board and room, plus transportation from West Madison Street to wherever the gandy-dancing job is. But the railroad employment offices on West Madison Street don't get any more men today than they did before...
...shared our food and our languages and our songs. The Hero of the Soviet Union staggered down a succession of station platforms demanding cucumbers for his American comrade, and he eventually got them too, heaven only knows how. The railroad man sang the bass part to the entire Easter Mass in church Slavonic, and was half way through it a second time before he fell blissfully asleep. And then there was the offensive individual from the other end of the car, who apparently felt that he was not getting his just share of attention and fired two shots from...
Faith & Sweet Potatoes. In two years Mrs. Bethune's school was teaching 250 girls. By selling sweet-potato pie and ice cream to the railroad construction gangs, she raised enough money to buy the oozing city dump (known as "Hell's Hole"). Negro workmen, who took out part of their pay in tuition, built Faith Hall with secondhand bricks on 32 acres reclaimed from the dump...
Divorced. Jay Gould III, 27, wartime AAFlyer, namesake and great-grandson of the Erie railroad tycoon; by Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, pert, pretty daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce; after nearly two years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...from $1.97, was the highest since 1920. Even with the bumper crops expected this year, most grain traders think that wheat will stay up there because of the world demand. Moreover, farmers were having a tough time getting their grain to market. The shortage of railroad cars had forced many of them to pile it up in the open fields alongside the tracks (see cut). At week's end, drenching rains had spoiled half the grain stored in some fields...