Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of maneuvering, Lewis had talked to men like his old friend & enemy Harry Moses, of U.S. Steel, and Cyrus Eaton, of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; it was gradually borne in on him that Harry Truman might be calling his bluff. Eaton was anxious to bring about negotiations; Moses was willing-on his terms. But Harry Truman was adamant. And now the impossible had happened. Lewis had actually been convicted of contempt. Horatius heard the tramp of the Tuscans' feet...
...slickest of U.S. slick magazines was born-along with baseball, Buffalo Bill, the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York's first tattoo parlor and Carry Nation-100 years ago. This week, to show how gracefully it had grown old, it unveiled a centenary self-portrait that managed to appear both candid and flattering. The 348-page Christmas annual that came from the presses of swank, sophisticated Town & Country was the heaviest (2 Ibs. 11½ oz.) issue in its history. It was also the richest, with around $250,000 worth...
Take any car from Harvard Square, changing at Park Street, Under. From there go upstairs to the main station and hop a Lechmere car (at no additional cost) straight to the North STation, the fourth stop. The Garden is upstairs above the railroad station...
Bankers and industrialists debated with heat. Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton, who wanted operators to negotiate with Lewis, lunched with him. So did Big Steel's Harry Moses. Eaton, director of the coal-carrying C. & 0. railroad, wanted to get the coal moving again. He was also vehemently sure that if the strike was strung out and coal shipments were completely stopped, European nations would be thrown into the lap of Communism. There was at least some basis for Eaton's international fears. All the world watched. In cold & hungry Asia, in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Saigon and Singapore, among...
...Bridges had sent his organizers from San Francisco to Hawaii to sweep in recruits for his maritime union. It was virgin territory. Bridges' men also took in pineapple-plantation workers and a smattering of railroad workers, cannery workers, truck drivers. But their busiest field was the sugar plantations. They signed up plantation hands by the thousands in a heterogeneous organization that soon began to look like John L. Lewis' District...