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...miners' strike, the general strike of 1926, the dock strikes of 1948 and 1949, and the railway strike...
...Holter and William Glasscock. Jeff Holter was a wartime Navy scientist who returned to his home town of Helena, Mont., to take up the family business, but managed to carry on his lifelong interest in biophysics in a laboratory in an abandoned passenger station of the Great Northern Railway. To work with him, he hired another Montana native, Bill Glasscock, who had just finished his training in physics at Montana State College. Using private funds, secondhand and sometimes makeshift equipment, and winding their own electric motors when they could not buy the ones they needed, they developed a miniaturized slow...
...RAILWAY POLICE AND THE LAST TROLLEY RIDE by Hortense Calisher. 248 pages. Little, Brown...
...billion. Production this year will rise 12-15%, to about 1,150,000 vehicles. Fiat also produces most of what it takes to put a car together and make it work, from ingots to machine tools to oil. Under the slogan "Fiat Land Sea Air," the company also makes railway and marine equipment, jet aircraft and engines...
These two novellas illustrate how evanescent a Calisher point can be when it is pursued to its core. On the New York-to-Boston train, in The Railway Police, is a woman social worker who wears wigs to hide a hereditary baldness. Seeing a ticketless passenger led away by the railway cops, the social worker abruptly decides to follow his example -to be a vagrant; that is, to exercise "the right to be out of the organized world." Girdle, rings, bank account, wig -everything is abandoned for the park-bench life...