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...also preserves masses of clippings and miscellaneous photographs, which he somehow manages to unearth when they fit an idea. Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog-which depicts the Moorhead, Miss., crossing of the Southern Railway and the old Yazoo City Line, colloquially known as "the Yellow Dog"-was inspired by a line from W. C. Handy's Yellow Dog Blues that Cloar had jotted down on a scrap of paper...
...crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It's got poifect pitch...
...Emergency Situation." Last spring, when the machinists' strike seemed in evitable, the President invoked the 40-year-old Railway Labor Act to postpone the walkout so that a three-man presidential emergency board could study the dispute. Chaired by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, a partisan of organized labor, the board ultimately recommended a wage-benefit increase of 3.6%, a notch above L.B.J.'s 3.2% anti-inflationary wage-price guideline. Johnson was pleased nonetheless, urged both labor and management to accept the board's terms. The five airlines-Northwest, TWA, Eastern, United and National-agreed, but the I.A.M...
Under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, the Board will hear the positions of both parties and within 30 days make recommendation for an agreement to the President. The two parties are then expected to work out a settlement based on the recommendations during the next 30 days. After this second period, the union is again free to strike...
James J. Hill Great Northern Railway...