Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riots outside Iowa Beef Processors' slaughterhouse in tiny Dakota City (pop. 1,440), Neb., over the past two weeks recalled the labor wars of the 1930s. As union workers hurled railroad spikes and ball bearings at state troopers and strikebreakers, stinging clouds of tear gas and chemical spray swirled into protesters' eyes. Earlier, enraged members of Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union had spread nails across the highway. Then, screaming "Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced...
...biter passed low over the reviewing stand at California's Edwards Air Force Base while a military band played God Bless America. Reagan likened the conclusion of the shuttle test program to the driving of the golden spike that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad...
Bechtel began life virtually as a one-man operation, when a young German rancher named Warren A. Bechtel decided in 1898 to hire himself out with his mules to help construct a railroad line through Indian territory. The company established its name nationally in 1931 by helping to lead the eight-company consortium that built the Hoover...
...rookie of 42-the first black pitcher in the American League; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo. "Do you throw that hard consistently?" asked his first manager. "No, sir," said Satchel, "I do it all the time." Paige (his nickname came from carrying satchels at a railroad depot as a child) estimated that he pitched 2,500 games in the black leagues, won 2,000, including 100 no-hitters, and in one year played 153 games, tailing on 29 consecutive days. Said St. Louis Ace Dizzy Dean, who lost a 1-0, 13-inning exhibition...
...patient, of course, who suffers when the doctor is exhausted. "When you work 36 hours at a stretch, all you can do is work by protocol," Harrison explains. As a result, she says, doctors railroad patients into procedures and operations without pausing to consider their wishes. She provides numerous examples of this abuse, adding, "Patients have no choice in what is done to them." In one case, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied (a form of sterilization) after she gives birth because her doctor suspects that her uterus is unfit for another pregnancy. He gets her permission while...