Word: railways
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...slide last week. They whisked through the same series of neck-snapping, bowl-banked curves, navigated the hairpin turn called Sunny Corner, swooped through the Horseshoe, rolled into "Shamrock" and "Devil's Dyke," slithered and bounced past the checkpoint called Tree, turned right to swing beneath a railway bridge and shot toward the finish line at better than 70 miles an hour. However their techniques varied, every team at St. Moritz had one thing more in common: they all rode sleds built by the defending bobsled champion, Switzerland's Fritz Feierabend...
...erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war. When the railroads were nationalized by the Socialists in 1948, the equipment was overaged, the labor force (at the unions' insistence) oversized. The government could never firmly decide whether to subsidize hundreds of half-idle porters and uneconomic Far Twitterings...
...Losing End. Since under the nationalization act the railway system was supposed to pay for itself, the British Transport Commission could not raise wages without raising fares and freight rates-which would antagonize other voters and raise the price of Britain's exports. Other workers got raises. But the railwaymen were made to feel that any demand for higher wages was an unpatriotic act. Four years ago "Big Jim" Campbell, amiable, earnest chief of the 400,000-man National Union of Railwaymen, said: "The men are sick, sore and sorry. They feel they are at the losing...
...economics over the classic "where-will-you-get-the-money" school. Railwaymen, said the court, ought to get wages that would put them "in no worse case" than workers in "comparable" industries. Said the court: "The nation has provided by statute that there shall be a nationalized system of railway transport, which must therefore be regarded as a public utility of the first importance. Having willed the end, the nation must will the means...
...acres in Washington's Lewis County: "For years we struggled to clear this land for pasture and crops . . . Finally, the timber company told us to get wise and harvest timber as a crop. In the last ten years I've harvested 1,000,000 board feet of railway crossties, 800 cords of fuel wood, 1,000,000 board feet of saw logs and 500 cords of pulpwood off that land. Now my motto is 'Let your tree work for you.' It pays...