Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stonewall, Ga., milkman named H. T. Bradberry found a U.S. mail pouch containing $239,000 in currency lying beside the Atlanta & West Point Railroad tracks. He turned it over to postal authorities, who grabbed the sack, subjected him to gimlet-eyed questioning, finally told him he was free to leave-but did not utter one word of thanks...
...through the weekend the U.S. people wondered: Will there be another railroad strike? The memory of the last one -in 1946-was still green...
Blow the Whistle. The current fight had begun last fall when all the railroad brotherhoods were agitating for wage increases. Some 1,000,000 workers in 17 non-operating brotherhoods accepted a 15½?-an-hour boost. Two operating brotherhoods with 250,000 members (trainmen and conductors) also accepted the 15½? boost...
Many a Bostonian who has no love for Dumaine was on his side in the fight. They felt that the New York interests (insurance) which had dominated the railroad had given Boston the short end of :he New Haven's business. Lately, South Shore commuters and Cape Codders have been fighting mad over the New Haven's plan to stop passenger service on its subsidiary, the Old Colony Railroad, the only railroad to the Cape. Shrewd Frederic Dumaine said that if he won the New Haven he would try to keep the Old Colony running...
...three undergraduate editors of "Wake")--appear to me to be cleanly written and clearly conceived pieces, but they nonetheless left me with a peculiarly unsatisfied feeling. "Worth A Golden Spoon" misses because it rests on an idea never quite made clear--the idea that a beehive, presented to a railroad employee by his associates, has a peculiar and special meaning to him. I couldn't help feeling that the exact nature of this meaning ought to have been indicated somewhere in the story. My objection to "Episode of a House Remembered" is perhaps the result of my prejudice against pieces...