Word: transition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike developed because of labor dissatisfaction with the terms of an arbitration award made by Judge Sullivan in settlement of a similar strike last November. For 36 hours General Johnson sweated with the disputants, got the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. to promise a minimum of 48 hours work to its regular handlers during every week that 4,000 carloads of livestock were received. All other questions in dispute were again left to Judge Sullivan's decision. Despite his interrupted golf game, the Judge listened to General Johnson's plea, agreed to act again...
...hottest day in Chicago's history: official temperature, 104°, stock yard temperature, 110°. But no one went to feed the cattle, no one gave them water, no one hurried them to the mercy of the slaughterhouse. The 800 livestock handlers of Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.- "the cowboys of the stock yards"-were in the street instead of in the pens, pacing slowly back & forth, bearing placards: THIS PLACE UNFAIR TO ORGANIZED LABOR...
...display in the Coney Island yards of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. last week was the first high-speed aluminum train to be tried on New York City's vast subway system. At leather seats, indirect lighting, pastel color schemes, chimes for sliding doors, subway sardines gaped in astonishment. But a modern subway train was not the only BMT exhibit of the week. Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl was busy giving the first successful demonstration of how to circumvent the Securities Act of 1933. BMT's toothy, argumentative chairman was not bothered by any looming bond maturities. That problem...
Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
...such old-school businessman. Born in Brooklyn 61 years ago, Henry Ingraham Harriman joined the New York Bar, went to Boston to make his fortune. He helped found New England Power Association (which developed the first major hydro-electric sites on the Connecticut River) and untangle Boston's transit tangle. Director in many a potent New England bank and industry, he owns a 200,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana, reads Greek for relaxation. He has been close to the New Deal from the start and his advice has been sought and taken. Of the millions of words which...