Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House garden party, sipped some lemonade and calmly ate a dish of ice cream. It was a party for disabled war veterans, arranged several weeks before. Harry Truman shook hands with some 900 wounded men, many of them in wheel chairs. One disabled man asked the President how the railroad strike was going. Said Harry Truman: it was still...
...down the railroad systems of the Eastern Seaboard, the same silence. Acres of freight cars, brooding herds of grimy locomotives stood in quiet rail yards at Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Jersey City. At dusk, signal lights glowed green along thousands of miles of rail. The tracks were clear-and empty...
...work. The gloom in roundhouses was brightened by the sudden yellow glare from fire doors. By midnight, on almost all the 337 strikebound roads, locomotives drummed through the darkness with throttles back and Johnson bars in the corner. More slowly, freight trains took up their grinding journeys. In railroad stations lines reformed at ticket windows. Baggage appeared; redcaps toiled. The Government turned the roads back to their owners...
...Manhattan, it was the highly touted heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Bruce Woodcock, an ex-Yorkshire railroad hand. Against tubby Tami Mauriello, No. 3 U.S. heavyweight, Woodcock showed he could dish it out, but he failed to keep after his man when he had him on the run. In the fifth round, the two were drubbing away at each other's midsections when Mauriello suddenly lifted his fire and landed on Woodcock's jaw. The Englishman, unbeaten in 25 fights, went down and tottered up a little too late. The referee had already counted...
...Kaiser bought title to Eagle Mountain from the Southern Pacific railroad for $1,000,000. But it was encumbered by a lease on the iron deposits held by Edward T. Foley, closemouthed, hard-driving contractor who does a world-wide construction business from a side-street office in Pasadena...