Word: railroads
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Congress, in scornful and recalcitrant mood (see p. 13), gave the Assistant President an immediate response. Within 48 hours: 1) the Senate battered a great new breach in the crumbling line of the Little Steel Formula by voting to a million non-operating railroad employes the 8?-per-hour wage raise which Stabilization Boss Fred M. Vinson had denied them; 2) the Senate Finance Committee pared $217 million out of the piddling $2,140,000,000 tax bill voted by the House...
...Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by Billy Rose) turns the opera that Sir Thomas Beecham once called "the sturdiest oak in the operatic forest" into the most brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering's sake. Respectfulness everywhere chaperones audacity...
...railroad strike vote was completed. The results, although not officially announced, were overwhelmingly in favor of a strike. This week the Senate was ready to give 1,100,000 railroad workers the 8? -an-hour raise which Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson turned down last June...
Worst hit was the center of town. The Potsdam, Stettin and Yorckstrasse railroad stations were destroyed. Traffic into the Anhalt station was stopped because the tracks on the approaches were ripped up. From great piles of coal stored at the damaged Lehrte station smoke mushroomed thickly...
...string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls so big that you could a-throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started...