Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the most frequent phrase heard in connection with the coal and railroad strikes was: "Why doesn't he do something about them...
...hullabaloo over the railroad strike, the coal strike was almost forgotten. In their first week back at work, the miners dug out 9,000,000 tons of coal (normal consumption: 11,200,000 tons). But negotiations had once more broken off, and time was running out on John Lewis' second deadline. By now everybody knew what President Truman would do if the miners struck again. He would seize the mines. He would also promise to carry on negotiations after the mines had been seized-if the miners would continue to work. But would they? At week...
Could it really happen? There had never been a complete, swiftly paralyzing railroad strike in the U.S. Yet here it was, pounding down the main line at full throttle, brushing aside the minutes, highballing toward the seemingly inevitable collision...
...Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (78,000 members). Now he talked again, and this time-just 26 minutes before the strike deadline-he got a promise. The strike was off, for five days, and the Messrs. Whitney & Johnston would return to Washington and resume negotiations with the railroad operators...
...that night the nation got a foretaste of what a railroad strike would be like. Trains clanked into towns-and stopped. Freights stood still on many a main line. At Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station many rail workers went to their lockers, put away their uniform caps and walked off. At Grand Central Station the Twentieth Century Limited was dead on its wheels seven hours after the President's announcement. So were hundreds of trains across the nation, in the worst passenger jam of modern railroading history...