Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the second straight week that the movies they ordered from a New York distributing firm have failed to appear. Last time it was the fault of the rail strike. The H.L.U. had the film sent by air this time, but with no better success...
...second time in seven weeks, U.S. railway unions used a swindler's trick in their tangled, two-year contract fight. The key switchmen who make up trains in pivotal rail yards began reporting sick again in droves-first in Chicago and Detroit, then in dozens of other cities, east, west and south, around the nation. The effect was even more devastating than it was last December when Christmas packages piled...
...prisoners said that the loth had been ordered to seize Taegu after blocking the Andong-Taegu rail & road line. They never came near that ambitious goal...
...industrial average, a rise of 56 points since the slump after the outbreak of the Korean war. But after hitting 250, stocks kept right on rising, and at week's end the market hit 253.92, highest point since June of 1930. This week despite the tax bill and rail strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market rang up still another new high of 255.17. The upsurge was so impressive that even the seers are now chary of saying how high the market...
...week now the government has held up all rail shipments outside New England. They have also refused any airmail packages over two pounds. In effect, the "sick" trainmen have succeeded in forcing many students to wear the same dirty shirts for several days while their laundry is tied up at either end of the line...