Word: featherbedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other industries have borne similar loads of taxes and wages but few have had to face such entrenched unions as the railroad brotherhoods, which resolutely resist the march of technological progress. Even when improvements sped up schedules the brotherhoods prevented any savings and successfully insisted on "featherbedding" which means paying crews on a mileage basis. They draw eight hours pay for 100 miles on a freight, 150 miles on a passenger train. Many "featherbed" crews now draw eight hours pay for runs of less than four hours...
To love and its attendant foibles Poet Gogarty's lighter vein is apt: Only the Lion and the Cock, As Galen says, withstand Love's shock. So, Dearest, do not think me rude If I yield now to lassitude, But sympathise with me. I know You would not...
''How the world is managed, and why it was created, I cannot tell; but it is no featherbed for the repose of sluggards." More than one student of Latin verse, reading the preface to the best edition of Manilius, must have been surprised to find this sentence. Few...
Item. A farmer's testimony that he saw a parked car on the road which runs down the south side of the estate, Featherbed Road, at 7:30 on the evening of the abduction.