Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, who chafes at the confinement of the White House, had a week of busy escape. In his special railroad car, he took off for Fulton, Mo. (to introduce Speechmaker Winston Churchill) and for a return-trip stopover for a speech of his own in Columbus, Ohio...
Would April rival January? John L. Lewis, announcing that he wanted a new basic wage agreement, filed a 30-day strike notice on behalf of 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers. Some 300,000 railroad engineers and trainmen, seeking a 25% wage increase, voted overwhelmingly for a nationwide strike against some 130 U.S. railroads...
...destroyed; it was apparently the Soviet Union's dual desire to rebuild Russia's own factories with Manchurian equipment, and to weaken China on her Asiatic flank. Mukden has been reduced from a great industrial city into a tragic, crowded way station on the Russian-controlled railroad to Dairen. A strong China is not Russia...
Scrap Iron. As the magnitude of Denver's coup became apparent-a million people visited the grave every year-certain Wyoming citizens threatened to kidnap Bill. Denver's alarmed citizenry took steps-15 tons of concrete and old railroad iron were laid over the grave...
Coffee-colored Bustamante gathered his tough dock workers, bawled out orders (dictated to his common-law wife-secretary): "Handle the strikers with an iron hand." In reply, Norman Washington Manley, leftist leader of the defiant T.U.C., called strikes among prison guards, firemen and railroad workers. Armed mobs of rival unionists prowled the streets. Three men were killed. Bustamante was hit on the head by a brick...