Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Railroads. Rail traffic in the first half, said James L. Symes, chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad, will be 5% to 7% over the first half of 1959, when the rails were still steaming out of the recession...
...wild, scared, quick-witted young Alabama Negro housemaid who, having been seduced by her employer and sent packing by his wife, finds sanctuary with an enlightened writer. While the writer is playing Professor Higgins to the girl's Liza, the town assumes he is playing Don Juan. Preachers rail, hooded figures threaten, before a ladylike Jolly goes North for further schooling. Beyond some vivid touches by Eartha Kitt, the play has small merit. It is so gagged up with breezy situations, crude stereotypes and comic characters that the racial angle, which might have breathed chill realism upon Shavian comedy...
...home from St. Petersburg the biggest order ever placed: 50,000 bulbs for the Czar's Winter Palace. Dumfounded, Gerard wired back asking how many of the zeros were a mistake. Rewired multilingual Anton impatiently: "Fifty thousand, fÜnfzig tausend, cinquante mille." When Germany later cut the rail link to Russia, Anton hired 70 reindeer and sleighs to get light bulbs through to the imperial court via Finland...
...will probably not be sufficient to protect the public from a crippling strike. Since unions and management have adopted such diametrically-opposed stands, any settlement will involve a substantial retreat by either or both sides--or even government action such as compulsory arbitration or temporary seizure of the railroads. Rail transportation cannot be halted for more than a week without economic consequences far more serious than the repercussions of the steel strike, at least in the opinion of many economists...
Admittedly, many of the regulations currently enforced on the nation's railways smack of the days when passenger trains averaged 20 miles per hour and rail was the only convenient mode of transportation. Train crews now need travel only 100 miles to earn a full day's pay; an engineer making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent...