Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Casey Jones, relict of the famed engineer, sharp-eyed and spry at "over 80," rode up from Jackson, Tenn. to Chicago for a railroad fair, reminisced about Casey: "Laughing brown eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff...
...seized by the Government nine weeks ago to avert a strike, were returned last week to private ownership. The three holdout brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, switchmen) agreed, at long last, to the same 15½?-an-hour wage boost which had been accepted some time ago by all the other railroad workers...
...born to poverty. Her father was a drifting railroad mechanic; her mother a Polish farmer's daughter. During her childhood in San Bernardino, Calif., her teachers despaired of her. She skipped classes, made eyes at the boys, and got miserable grades. She entered a beauty contest at twelve and won fourth prize, a pair of stockings. At 15 she married a youth named Irving Wheeler. He was not a touchstone to happiness, and she left him in three weeks...
...sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going to kill every white man in Malaya." As the rebels left, the girl guerrilla took the station first-aid hamper with...
Last week pursuing Nationalists found Chen Yi waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...