Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOSTON--Negotiators for the Boston & Maine (B&M) Railroad and striking maintenance workers yesterday settled a four-day wildcat strike. Both sides refused to comment on details of the settlement...
...strike began after the B&M hired a non-union contractor to repair a boiler at the railroad's offices in North Billerica, Gloria Stone, a B&M spokesman, said yesterday...
...some $780 million, of which $520 million came directly from Ludwig's resources. He has carved from the rain forest four towns (the largest of which is Monte Dourado), as well as an 85-bed hospital, four schools, 4,500 miles of roads and trails, a 26-mile railroad, and three small airports. The project has attracted so many job seekers, peddlers and hangers-on that the population of the area has surged from almost nothing...
...more silent and harrowing arena awaited the group in Auschwitz, not far from the city of Cracow. Here, in 1944, the killing machines operated with irrational efficiency. Even when the Germans needed rolling stock to bring their own wounded soldiers back from the front, the railroad cars of Auschwitz kept on rolling...
Federal Judge Irving Hill likes to recall that his uncle, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant to the U.S., went to a railroad station in New York City, plunked down his savings and asked for a ticket west, as far as his money would take him. That turned out to be Lincoln, Neb. Hill's father, arriving from the Ukraine "with less than a buck in his pocket," followed, and it was in Lincoln that Hill was born and raised...