Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere labor seemed less inclined to follow the disastrous tactics of the telephone workers, and more inclined to follow the successful strategy of Phil Murray's steelworkers. Both the railroad trainmen's A. F. Whitney and the National Maritime Union's Joe Curran, who had hit the nation a one-two punch last year, were now breathing peaceful assurances...
...needed a few dollars now & then for tobacco, salt, flour. In the old days, it was easy to make a few dollars. All he had to do was cut a little hard maple, sell it as fuel for the brick kilns at Haverstraw. Even the locomotives on the Erie Railroad burned wood for a long time. But all that gave...
...Tanimura last week, depressed over the failure of a candidate he backed in a local election, Taniyuki Shimura killed himself by biting off his tongue. In crime-ridden Tokyo, 24-year-old Kan Arai threw himself under a railroad train, "because by becoming a policeman I have discovered the corruption and dishonesty of sublunary affairs. It is useless to be a policeman in such a world...
...Tall, balding Gus Hennig, chief guard for the past 37 years, smiles and says: 'It's wicked out there today.' As you walk on to the floor a messenger in full sprint about knocks you down. The great paneled room resembles a large railroad station at 5 p.m. when commuters are racing for trains. High above the trading floor are the big blackboards carrying quotations for wheat, corn and other commodities...
...think RFC has been grossly mismanaged," he cried. "They have been in bed with Wall Street." Like a "Shylock" demanding its "pound of flesh," RFC in cooperation with Wall Street had played "power politics" with the Erie Railroad, the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago & North Western, "and half a dozen other bankrupt railroads." By appointing former RFC employees as trustees of the bankrupt roads, RFC had in effect created an evil "voting trust." As a result, Young declared, "those railroads have been grossly, almost criminally mismanaged...