Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat similar incident. On May 10, 1864, Virginia Military Institute cadets were ordered into action for the battle of New Market, Va. Though ten were killed, 45 wounded, the 247 cadets charged gallantly, helped a meager Confederate force repulse Union troops who were seeking to cut the Virginia Central Railroad and thus cripple Richmond...
...Labor Department lists three older strikes: California redwood workers (September 1945); textile workers at the Gaffney Mfg. Co., Gaffney, S. C. (September 1945); seven railroad unions at the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad (October...
...aircraft industry. 4. The railroad industry...
...prefabricated houses had been hauled north on sleighs. Tractor trains clanked in from Sherridon carrying hundreds of tons of supplies at a time. (On the return trip they carried back ore for extraction at a pilot plant set up in Sherridon.) There was talk of laying a spur railroad line from Sherridon north to Lynn Lake...
...secret that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. had lost money in 1946. The only question was: How much? Last week the Pennsy gave out the dismal figure: $8.5 million (v. a net profit of $49 million in 1945). Never before in its 100-year history had the biggest U.S. railroad gone into...