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...fundamentals of American history need not be threatened as we expand to cover other important elements, such as the contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanics. For example, in telling of building the transcontinental railroad, the contributions of Irish and Chinese laborers were for many years ignored. The Asian contributions to early California agriculture are very seldom mentioned. Some people may fear that more attention on minority groups may have the effect of dividing people. But in a complex society, there are many different elements, and we should view this as a unique opportunity to build strength...
...chance. The county, 35 miles south of Chicago, prevailed in an intense 15-month bidding contest against 20 other sites in Illinois and neighboring Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin. Will County won by building a $300,000 road, finding $150,000 in state funds for a training program, extending a railroad spur to the plant's back door, negotiating with the owner of the 37-acre site to drop its price, and even renaming its county highway for Coilplus...
...seen as degenerate enemies of progress as the century went on and their resistance grew, and finally (by the 1890s) turning into doomed phantoms. Its landscapes are prodigious. Its stage material includes the Conestoga wagon, the simple cabin, the tepee, the isolated fort, the deep perspective V of the railroad -- and at the end, symbol of absolute victory over nature, the California sequoia with a road cut through its trunk...
...space shuttle, American industry still lives by the stodgier, workaday technology of the railroad. The proof: less than 24 hours after 235,000 railworkers went on strike last week against the nation's major freight rail companies, Congress, at the urging of President Bush, ordered the strikers back to work. Bush defended the action, saying that "the strike would cripple the economy and adversely affect national security." Some half million workers in the automobile and other rail-dependent industries faced layoffs within days of the aborted job action...
...railroad industry and 11 unions have been bargaining for years over wages, work rules and health care. Tentative agreements were reached with only three unions just before the strike deadline. In January a bipartisan board created by the White House called for salary hikes accompanied by increases in the mileage that crews must travel for a day's pay and in worker contributions to health-plan costs. Most unions opposed the board's recommendations as promanagement. That may not matter. A new board is being set up with the power, so far uninvoked, to impose a settlement...