Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a train of dust...
There are about 100 other such new "firemen" on the Southern, all aging or aged Negroes (60 to 80-odd). They get up to $25 a day, although none of them ever worked on a train before. They are pawns, lucky pawns, in a bitter chess game between the Southern and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Traveling an independent track, the Southern withdrew from the 195-company united front that U.S. railroads have presented in their work-rules battle with five railroad operating unions. Instead, the Southern has carried on its own fight in its own way against...
Favored Countries. For ten days, the green-and-gold Council chamber rang with debate over Mother Portugal's Africa-the largest European empire still intact, one which is plagued by poverty, rebellion, and (in the words of nationalists) "totalitarianism tempered by inefficiency." In a fascinating train of logic, the Africans argued that because they themselves are threatening to "liberate" the territories, Portugal's continued presence in them endangers the peace...
Befogged Future. Under the President's plan, the railroads may petition the ICC to establish new rules in the hottest area of dispute, notably the question of whether a fireman will continue riding in the cab of every diesel train, doing no necessary work. The commission must consider the findings of the presidential panels that have already exhaustively examined these issues and decided them in favor of management. The ICC is to act within 120 days "or as soon thereafter as is practicable"-a broad franchise for stalling...
Then, at 5:17 a.m., the earthquake struck Skoplje, jarring awake its 170,000 inhabitants. Pilot Blagojevic felt the first shock and rushed to the window. "The whole railway station folded in on itself," he recalls, "and the wreckage covered a train that was pulling into the station. For endless seconds you could hear only the thunder of collapsing buildings. In the room next to mine a woman was screaming for help...