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...Stimson complete power over every one of the 233,670 miles of railroad track in the U.S., from the one-mile-long Valley Railroad in McKean County, Penna. to the $2,000,000,000 Pennsy (24,928 miles). The Secretary may even take over subways, tunnels and streetcar lines, if need...
...life story of Omaha's George Francis Train, who, after failing to become "President" of Australia (somebody bungled the revolution), invented eraser-tipped pencils, postage stamps with perforated seams, retractable carriage steps. After building the first streetcar lines between Liverpool and Birkenhead, Train circled the globe in 80 days (said Train of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days: "He stole my thunder. I'm Phileas Fogg"). During the Paris Commune, Train wrapped himself in French and American flags, screamed at a firing squad: "Fire, fire, you miserable cowards." He lived to be buried...
Faithful Follower. In Philadelphia, Mrs. Ray MacAtee, who swore she had never been a back-seat driver, became a conductor on a streetcar whose motorman was MacAtee...
Like cod into a seine, some 20,000 panting citizens swarm every evening into a converted cyclodrome at Boston's Revere Beach. They are not bothered by the OPA ban on pleasure driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...
Democracy has been kind to Joseph Patrick Ryan. He quit school at 12, worked as stock boy, clerk, streetcar conductor, as a longshoreman at $18 for a six-day week. Now, at 59, as president of the A. F. of L. International Longshoremen's Association, he makes $20,000 a year...