Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Madison Square Park, Alexander Fell Whitney, boss of the Railroad Trainmen and the man whom the President had roasted to a turn, rose to his feet and cried: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." All around him the crowd-drummed up by the militant National Maritime Union-cheered...
...luck and his last minute capitulation he had worked his way out of the sump-hole of unpopularity in which he had been sloshing triumphantly for so long. The railroad strike had screened his undignified scramble for the bank. But if he remembered jumping into it in the first place he gave no sign...
...with such musical and marital accomplishments, 36-year-old Dave Rose seems painfully shy. He spends most of his time at the piano or with his miniature railroad (1,000 feet of track). His deadline composing and arranging amaze his friends. Most weeks, he begins preparing his broadcast only a day in advance. Modern composers do not amaze David Rose. He regards them as "a bunch of arrangers suffering from over-excitement...
Some of the ships were idle because of a shortage of crews or cargoes, the cumulative effect of the grain shortage and the coal and railroad strikes...
...cacophony of coal, steel and railroad shutdowns, the shrill cry of alarm from users of copper has gone unheard. Yet by last week the four-month strike of copper mine, smelter, and refinery workers threatened to shut down makers of refrigerators, washing machines, radios, telephones, vacuum cleaners, etc. Copper output was down to one-third of normal, while demand was at a peacetime peak...