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While Gilbert was shoveling coal in the mid-1920s, U.S. railroads began introducing the first diesel locomotives. Powered by an internal combustion engine, the diesels needed no firebox, no pile of coal-and no fireman. The diesels came onto U.S. railway tracks very gradually, and as late as 1937 fewer than 1% of the nation's locomotives were diesels. In that year the Brotherhood of Firemen foresightedly negotiated a contract with major railroads calling for two-man train crews. Fire or no fire, there was to be a fireman aboard...
March. The U.S. Supreme Court, 8 to 0 (Justice Goldberg not participating), rejects the union claim that the proposed work-rule changes would violate the Railway Labor...
Though the Métro is the first to experiment with rubber tires on a subway, the Michelin tires have been in use for nearly five years on a mile-long funicular railway that runs cars up and down Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Last week Montreal ordered rubber-tired rolling stock based on the Metro design for the 9½-mile subway it plans to build. Transaco, a French investment firm that is marketing the Metro system, recently signed technical contracts with Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro...
...cannot say that a law [in Louisiana, establishing separate-but-equal railway accommodations] which authorizes or even requires the separation of the two races in public conveyances is unreasonable...
...from door to door like brushes, and the company has placed 1,100,000 "million-yen savings boxes" in Japanese homes, where Nomura representatives periodically call to collect the yen and credit them to stock purchases. The firm has built branch offices in such spots as department stores and railway stations, has set up numerous investment clubs and seminars. Right after the war, Okumura was reluctant to go after foreign investors, because he felt that the low prices of Japanese stocks constituted an injustice to the work of Japan's ancestors. Today, he is working hard to interest foreign...