Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...
Thirteen months ago the 15 nonoperating unions began seeking a blanket 20? an hour raise on the grounds that they were suffering under a "gross inequity" in wages (typical inequity: the average railroad employe gets 84? an hour; a shipyard worker...
...Bill Starling began as a White House Secret Service man in 1914, after flings at being a deputy sheriff and a railroad special agent. He was deeply impressed by the fact that Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley had met violent deaths. As he understood it, his job was to keep that sort of thing from happening again. If there was an infernal machine or an assassin's bullet being planned for the Chief Executive, Colonel Ed figured that his life was worth less than the President...
...Earnings. War prosperity has increased the value and earning power of many insurance investments, notably railroad bonds. It has also helped the industry get out from under its crushing load of sour farm mortgages and foreclosed farms. During the depression, U.S. insurance companies had to take over 100,000 farms, worth (on the books) over $1 billion. By the end of the next crop season, most companies figure they will have disposed of all of them. Increased earnings from such sources arrested-at least temporarily-a 14-year downtrend in the net interest rate of U.S. insurance companies last year...
...William Allison struck gold on Butte Hill a few years before the hill's true wealth-copper -was discovered. But more than one Butte citizen could recall the icy December day in 1881 when an old-fashioned locomotive huffed & puffed up the newly completed Utah & Northern narrow-gauge railroad to connect Butte with Ogden, Utah (and the outside world) by rail...