Word: featherbedding
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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So union bosses and railroad chiefs sat down like the old antagonists they were to an amiable discussion. But as arguments dragged through July and August, they be came more acrimonious. The unions maintained that their wages were sinking below the rising tide of wages in other industries. Railroads, wailing...
Parachuter Starnes, said the professors, fell into no featherbed. He heard a terrific rush of wind past his ears; when he tried to talk he felt as though he were shouting into a high gale. He knew "he was falling and falling rapidly," for his body spun through the air...
Featherbed service rules began to get abusive after World War I, when the unions sought to offset layoffs and share speed-up savings by stretching the work. Veteran lobbyists, they also riveted many a cumbersome and costly rule into State safety laws. Then the National Railroad Adjustment Board, founded in...