Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessman (Panama hats) named Eloy Alfaro came to power, began a half century of Liberal Party control, marked by anticlericalism, e.g., confiscation of huge church estates, enactment of some of South America's first divorce laws. He built the buckety Quito-Guayaquil railroad. Then in 1912, Eloy Alfaro overreached for a third term, and the army handed him over to the fickle mob, which tore him limb from limb...
Thus, on the eve of the biggest battle of the session, the heat was on some 15 to 20 Republican swing voters who might be pulled by homeside railroad and building-trades union lobbyists to vote for mild legislation. It was also on an equal number of Southern Democrats tempted to vote for a tough bill but under heavy pressure from Speaker Rayburn-"This is a party issue. What are you, a Democrat or a Republican?"-to vote for the Elliott bill. And over the battle hung the prospect of a presidential veto of any labor bill that...
...Specifically, the Landrum-Griffin bill 1) bans picketing by one union where another union is recognized, also where the picketing union has not applied for a NLRB recognition election within the preceding 30 days; 2) extends Taft-Hartley's partial ban on secondary boycotts to railroad, airline, farm and domestic workers, outlaws threats of boycott; 3) authorizes states to handle no-man's-land disputes...
RAIL STRIKE INSURANCE pact is virtually certain of adoption by major railroad managements in preparation for negotiating the new long-term contracts in autumn. Plan is similar in principle to airlines' strike pact (TIME, Nov. 10), would insure strikebound railroads for up to $600,000 per day to cover all fixed operating expenses...
Tokyo's 1,090 trolleys and 2,300 commuter-railroad cars blossomed last week with hastily printed posters headlined "Protection from Radiation" and concluding, "Drink tea and rebuild bright future." In between was an explanation of the connection between these seemingly unrelated items. And between the lines was the unconcealed hope of Japan's tea industry that it could capitalize on fears of nuclear war to build future profits...