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...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...
...father's horse-drawn delivery wagon. After he finished high school in 1925, he got a job with an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe signal gang, working along the tracks from Missouri to Chicago. Earning $22.56 a week, pretty good money in the mid-1920s, he married his longtime sweetheart. Bent on settling in Chicago, he went on to the big city alone because he did not have enough money for her fare. As soon as he could get a railroad pass, he brought his bride to Chicago. For nine years Gilbert worked as a fireman on the Alton Railroad...
Married. Peter Snell, 24, New Zealand's world record holder for the mile and half mile; and Sally Turner, 20, his longtime sweetheart; in Papakura...
...Sweetheart Agreement...
Working with little or no equipment, the truck mines soon found that they could not pay union wages and still compete with the mechanized mines. While these operators usually signed a UMW contract, the union consented to a "sweetheart agreement," that essentially allowed the operator to pay what he could for wages as long as he paid the 40 cents per ton royalty. But as the market and price for coal dropped, the "sweetheart agreements" turned sour. Deterioration in wages was accepted by the men as long as they retained their welfare benefits. About two years ago, however, the smaller...