Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unions defend the pay-rules system on the ground that it is good for the railroads. Says G. E. Leighty, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Association and a member of the presidential panel that reported this week: "The truth is that the railroads, since they pay their train-service employees no Sunday or holiday pay, night differentials, away-from-home expenses or other premium payments . . . actually save under present work rules among their operating workers...
...founding in 1868, the union added Brakemen to its handle only a decade ago. The current president is Louis J. Wagner, 66, who got started in railroading in his teens as a station agent's helper. In addition to taking tickets, conductors act as straw bosses while the train is on the road. They are supposed to see that other crewmen are on the job, and that the train moves smoothly enough to avoid discomfort to passengers or damage to freight. Brakemen used to be train-top daredevils who leaped from car to car, setting hand brakes at each...
...daily necessity." 2) "Try filling up on two or three continental breakfasts in place of eggs and bacon." 3) "Never patronize a restaurant that doesn't display a menu in its window." 4) "Don't leap to find a hotel. Check your bags at the airport or train station while you go out to look . . . Never rent a room sight unseen...
...singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...
Southwark slices the British social system from top to bottom. It starts on the tough Thames River docks in the heart of London, runs south through the vast, scruffy slums of Bermondsey, and courses along the commuter train tracks to green suburban Surrey, where Tudor estates and Bentleys abound. An estimated 550,000 confirmed Anglicans live in the diocese. Where the wealthy Establishment stockbrokers reside, the churches-and collection plates-are full, but in the populous working-class parishes, the pews have never been full...