Word: weathercocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Franklin Roosevelt was elected President. Harriman reacted to the New Deal like a weathercock in a gale. When other depression-struck railroads were frantically retrenching, he spent millions to give the Union Pacific low-priced dining service, comfortable day coaches, streamlined trains. He became an officer in NRA, and a devoted servant of the President...