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Retaliation. In Palermo, Sicily, street cleaners who were denied a wage boost toured the town redistributing the garbage they had collected the day before...
Oklahoma had passed a law abolishing the 1,500 one-room schoolhouses in the state. The law was designed to cut Oklahoma's school bill and boost its educational standards, but Waterloo didn't see it that way. Next fall they would have to send their children to Edmond, two hours away by bus. Teacher Mary McKinney, who had lived thereabouts all her 47 years, was getting ready to move somewhere else. She was sure of one thing: "I don't want to teach in a city. City pupils are impudent...
...sales in the first six months of 1947 reached a record high of approximately $51,377,000,000, more than in any full year before 1941. The U.S. Employment Service noted that employment was up to a new record of 58,300,000. It estimated that seasonal employment would boost the total to 59,300,000 by September. With prospects of industrial peace ahead, the stock market kept on advancing. The Dow-Jones industrial averages were up 4.43 points...
...knock at the door of the Interstate Commerce Commission sounded familiar. It sounded like the urgent rap of a man who knew his rights and wanted them fulfilled. It was the railroads again. Last year they had come seeking a 20% rate increase. They got 17.6%-a $1 billion boost in their annual revenues...
...railroads had some cogent arguments: since 1939, rates had risen only 17.6%, but wages had risen 53%, materials 60%. The war-boom increase in traffic was no longer enough to make up the difference. Furthermore, 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers are demanding a 20?-an-hour pay boost, which would add $572 million a year to railroad costs; the railroad brotherhoods are demanding 44 changes in operating rules, which the railroads claim would cost another billion. If these increases are granted, said the railroads, even a 16% rate increase will not be enough...