Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide practical experience in every phase of railroad operation . . . the Southern Railway System negotiated a contract with the U.S. Government making available to the battalion that part of the Southern Railway System known as the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad, which extends from Meridian, Miss, to New Orleans, 202 miles. No charge was made by the N.O. & N.E. for its facilities, the services of its officers or employes, or the use of its property...
...delight to congratulate the officers and men of the Southern Railway System on the manner in which they have assisted the officers of the battalion and of the Military Railway Service in the training of the -th. Never has there been, in my knowledge of railroad service, a more cooperative, coordinated, unselfish and thoroughly competent help given anybody...
...saying, stocky Carl Elbridge Newton last week left his job as president of the bustling, kitten-conscious Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, thrust his feet under a Washington desk, and got set for a tough summer and a hard winter as operator of the Government-seized coal mines...
...formed a law firm with three friends, specialized in tax, anti-trust and reorganization cases. During the railroad-reorganizing '30s, he came up fast. In April 1942 he landed on the board of directors of C. & O., nation's second largest soft-coal carrier. Last December, only 44, he was boosted to president. As such, he had a big dollars-&-cents stake in the mine dispute, but was neither pro-operators nor pro-miners. In Republican Newton, businessmen agreed that Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes had made a top-notch nonpolitical choice...
...flying into their own flak while the Forts made their bombing runs, dropping small bombs on the tight formations of the U.S. planes. In the bitter fight over Messina, 20 Nazis were shot down. But the Forts got through and hit two ships in the harbor, plastered warehouses, docks, railroad tracks, stations. Despite the heavy Axis defenses, total Allied losses for the day were only three planes-and that included other raids. Total raids for the week...