Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other union in the world had ever tossed a party quite like it. Every one of the delegates had at least $500 expense money in his pocket besides the railroad and meal tickets and all; it had cost the Chicago locals about $800 for each delegate...
Cried he: "Thousands of cars could be freed by a single decision-if old-line railroad managements would act. . . . There is good reason to believe that by lifting deliberate freight slowdowns on the roads that still practice them, we could provide more cars this summer and fall than our shops can possibly build. . . . Write to your newspaper and your congressman...
...critics thought they could see a large cinder in his own bloodthirsty eye. They said Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., a major hauler of coal, operates some of the longest, slowest freight trains in the country. Said William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...Jackson, Tenn., old (73) Locomotive-Fireman Sim T. Webb recalled what Casey Jones really said before he took his "trip into the promised land" in the early morning of April 30, 1900. Casey, highballing south from Durant, Miss, at the throttle of the Illinois Central Railroad's locomotive No. 638, yelled across the cab at Webb: "Oh, Sim! The old girl's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight!" The occasion for this reminiscence: the unveiling of a monument on Casey's grave, for 47 years marked only by a wooden cross...
Last week, Harvard Divinity School Graduate Bro went to work as a section hand for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. At 85? an hour, 48 hours a week, his monthly earnings will be about $175-$25 less than his church pay. "As long as necessary," he said, he would support himself by other means and serve the church without salary...