Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's prize for hotbox rhetoric went to Alexander Fell Whitney, 76-year-old president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Anybody who voted for the Senate's new Taft labor bill, cried he, "broke faith with democracy and followed in the goose step of Naziism...
...Poling once said, "and perhaps that fact may shorten my days. I know that, but I have no regrets. I would choose a full life regardless." Before he was 19, Daniel Alfred Poling became a Baptist minister. He had already worked in steel mill and lumberyard, on farm and railroad. At the time of his ordination he was making honor grades at Dallas (Ore.) College, breaking in as a reporter on the Portland Oregonian, and starring at fullback on the football team...
Source of Wonder. As the ground rose, a railroad track had to be moved and the bed of a nearby stream had to be deepened. The postmaster kept copious records of every move the mountain made. Geologists decided that it was caused by a "laccolith," a mass of molten material that had forced its way toward the surface, raising local rock strata instead of breaking through them...
...million) than any other road in the U.S., yet it went bankrupt three months ago. Why? Thousands of commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan every day on its crowded, squalid, undependable trains have long thought that they had the answer to that question: they thought that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island, drove its subsidiary on the rocks by overcharging it for services rendered and underpaying it for services received...
...more than wiped out the $12 million in accounts payable which the Pennsy claims is now due from the Long Island. ¶About eleven miles of Long Island track form a vital freight route to the Brooklyn waterfront. Fees paid for use of this track by the N.Y. Connecting Railroad (jointly owned by Pennsylvania and the New Haven) totaled $300,000 last year, less than half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight yard near Manhattan, but leases it to the Pennsy, which pays it a piddling $13,000 a year. This...