Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California remembers him best as one of its great reform governors. To win that office (in 1910) he smashed the grip which the Southern Pacific had long held on California politics. After his victory, his father, the railroad's attorney, refused to speak to him for ten years. Hi Johnson, the rebel, went on to establish workmen's compensation, woman suffrage, the initiative, referendum and recall. In 1912 he entered national politics when he bolted the G.O.P. with Teddy Roosevelt...
...interview with the SERVICE NEWS, Mesbahzadeh former head of the Department of Information and Propaganda in Iran, emphasized the extent to which Iran has contributed to the war-effort by transporting more than 6,000,000 tons of lend-lease material to Russia over their only railroad, which runs from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea passing through Teheran...
...Manhattan, in the first fortnight after St. Swithin's Day, rain fell eleven days. New Jersey was soggy after the worst floods in four decades. At Little Falls, the Passaic River washed out a railroad bridge, leaving only the tracks swaying above the swollen current (see cut). New Orleans sloshed through its rainiest July ever (14 inches plus). When a man in Minneapolis ran out of ice cubes, his mother-in-law dashed into the backyard, picked up a handful of hailstones. It was no legend, but a fact, that the U.S. had had unusual weather since the hottest...
Despite his harshness, Jeffers won and held a reputation for scrupulous fairness, and for never asking anyone to do anything that he wouldn't do himself. Once, when he was general superintendent, he ran a rotary snowplow for 120 hours, opened the main line for traffic. The railroad brotherhoods, with whom U.P.'s relations are so cordial that there has been no labor trouble since 1903, regard Jeffers as a hard, fair bargainer...
...American people to support the Allies with ammunition and supplies whether we like it or not." These remarks roused the ire of many an isolationist, and posters were even circulated urging passengers to stay off the U.P., but Jeffers went right ahead getting himself and his railroad ready for war. He laid out an enormous spending program to improve...