Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ignoring the "Little Steel" formula, a National Railway Labor Panel emergency board recommended to the President an 8?-an-hour wage boost for over one million nonoperating railroad employes...
...Hearings were scheduled in New York next week on the demand of 350,000 operating railroad employes for a 30% raise...
There was no hint as to Mihailovich's reaction to the British suggestions. But there was plenty of evidence that Yugoslav patriots were fighting the invader with fresh fury. In Montenegro and Bosnia they stopped a new German offensive. Railroad bridges on the Belgrade-Sofia and Belgrade-Salonika lines were destroyed, delaying many important trains. Rome radio reported the capture and execution by guerrillas of Colonel Giuseppe Lispeti, Italian commander in southern Montenegro. The Germans, who two months earlier had announced that the Partisans were wiped out, now reported new "mopping up" operations...
Left. By the late Carl Meeker, 67, Los Angeles railroad fireman: his stomach; to science. Ballyhooed after a 1917 ulcer operation as the possessor of a transplanted goat's stomach, he had the last laugh on medicos, who found that their legacy was only human after...
...from the files of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Railroader McNear has been able to compare the results of Government operations v. his own management. To run the railroad the Government has 48.8% more employes, pays 35.3% more compensation. But with all this the Government has made only 3.3% more train-miles than during the last year McNear ran the road. And while the employes work one hour less than the 8½-hr. day they formerly put in, individually they earn less money-$7.96 per day v. the $8.75 McNear paid them...