Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then, of course, the government can throw the men into jail. No coal. Or if he wishes, Mr. Truman can draft all the miners. But if they still refuse to go into the mines, shooting them will get him no coal, and the nation must go without heat, steel, railroad traffic, and the other necessities of industrial life. If he tries to send the Army in to do the work, labor violence and mining accidents will reach an all-time high...
...Fred B. Snite Jr. had set a record: no other infantile paralysis victim in like case has survived more than a year. Last week, attended by his pretty wife Teresa and his three pretty little daughters (Pinkie, 6; Katherine, 3; Mary, 1), he was trundled onto a special railroad car in Chicago for his annual winter trip to Miami Beach...
...comes out in the wash. One can learn a great deal about people by a casual look at the weekly laundry. If the man of the house is a laborer or railroad man, there's usually a pair or two of denim overalls and a matching jumper. If there are children in the family there is evidence of them on the clothesline. I understand that in New England old-fashioned longies appear on the lines later in the season. But it is feminine things hanging in the back yards which reveal sadly,--no dispassionately,--what has happened to our once...
...railroad train...
There were two Negroes in the city jail at Mount Pleasant, Tenn., and there was a mob outside. That was enough to set the news wires chattering. Out came the railroad type and the exciting radio bulletins. Soon the story began to trickle...