Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet man who drove a 1934 Ford sedan. When the trail led to John Byers, they found it hard to believe that he was a bank robber. He had lived frugally, worked hard, first as a pumping-station oiler, then as a fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail to await a jury's definition of justice...
When it comes to paying out dividends, most U.S. railroads, like geysers, give out sporadically. Only the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is an Old Faithful. Last week Pennsy performed on schedule; it declared its 99th consecutive common stock dividend. The $1 dividend will be made to Pennsy's 214,995 stockholders on April 13, the 100th birthday of the road...
Domestic troubles would not stay down. He had an urgent problem to meet: the railroad strike threatened for this week. The President took the immediate heat off it by invoking the Railway Labor Act, appointing an emergency fact-finding board. But he resisted heavy pressures to intervene in the 16-week-old General Motors strike (see below). Following through on his plan to see labor leaders regularly, he talked long and (he reported) pleasantly with John L. Lewis and the A.F. of L.'s Carpenters' William L. Hutcheson...
...Soviet Union has intermittently encouraged its own citizens to settle there. Between 1928 and 1933, 19,000 of them did so; the cold winds blew 12,000 of them back. After 1931, when the Japanese across the Amur River in Manchuria were considered a threat to the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Soviet Government sold land and the necessary farming equipment to Jewish settlers in Birobidjan for a less-than-cost fee of $200. But by 1939 the total population of Birobidjan, including earlier, non-Jewish settlers, had reached only...
Willie to William. For Willie was not born a reformer. Kansas was a satrapy in the expanding empire of the Santa Fe Railroad, and coin from that corporation's treasure house financed individual political fortunes and augmented the general prosperity. Not until depression and the rise of Populism (whose grievances and politics were later to find expression in Roosevelt I's Square Deal and Roosevelt II's New Deal) did Willie begin to brood upon the other half at all. By then Willie had become William Allen White, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette, which...