Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then the firemen reached out for another concession-a second fireman in every diesel engine crew. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had been trying to get in on the deal, arguing that there should be a second engineer. The railroads turned both brotherhoods down, on the ground that their demands were out & out featherbedding. Over a period of six years three presidential boards had a careful look at the facts, decided that the brotherhoods were unreasonable. Railroads estimated that adding a third man would cost them at least $40 million a year...
...aircraft, buses and a fleet of cars and trucks. Some went to boarded-up resorts to the north, others to points as far away as Calgary and Montreal. The Red Cross provided emergency funds for the needy. Thousands of other evacuees crowded into downtown Winnipeg, safe on relatively high ground. The city auditorium was turned into a dormitory. If the situation worsened drastically, Morton had a master plan for compulsory evacuation, under martial law, of as much as 75% of the city's 320,000 population. Food was stockpiled; emergency passes and ration cards were printed...
...Federal Convention in 1787 that each session begin with prayer. "I have lived, Sir, a long time," he said, "and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without...
Ideals & Works. When completed, Princeton's Jefferson Papers will be a magnificent hunting ground for scholars. More than that, they will preserve for all Americans the record of a man in whom the U.S. traits of democratic idealism and practical works were uniquely blended...
Since early March, Howell has ordered seedlings of silver iodide smoke from the ground level. This method was also tried between 1 and 4:15 p.m. Saturday. Howell said that there were two showers east of the Catskills when he began seeding but that "there were no showers over the Catskills until after the cloud-seeding...