Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Plummer McNear Jr. does not believe in obeying a law that he hates. His 239-mile Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad was returned to him last October, after 42 months of Government operation under seizure. Immediately his union rail employes struck. The line has been strike-bound ever since. George McNear refused to negotiate". He said he would see the railroad and himself go broke first...
Glowing with an enthusiasm which some 5,000 residents had discovered long before him, Dr. Gavrilovic described what was going to happen to the area. It would be a small nation in itself. Big buildings would rise. There would be hotels, restaurants, shops, a railroad station. Thousands of tourists would flock to visit...
From the Japanese and their puppets, the Communists took over properties roughly valued at $15,000,000, as well as some 300 kilometers of the Peiping-Suiyuan Railroad. They have reopened two flour mills, and factories making cigarets, matches, soap, porcelain, lacquer, varnish and even artificial eyes...
...Pasadena last spring, a bevy of music-lovers went to the railroad station to greet Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Bulky Photographer Howard Ballew was on hand to cover the arrival for Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express. Said Wilfred L. Davis of the Southern California Symphony Association, eyeing Ballew's camera: "Are you going to photograph Mr. Toscanini...
Truman. Fulton expects 30,000 people to come to hear the former prime minister speak. Just how the county seat town of Fulton (which has only two hotels, and no railroad or airport) will handle its big day, Bullet McCluer left up to the old folks at home...