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Even so, labor fared fairly well at the hands of the Pay Board. Four important pay cases came before it, and the board gave unions all they wanted in two of them; railroad workers got a 10% raise and soft-coal miners a 15% increase. But the West Coast dock workers were cut down, and the first-year settlement in the ailing aerospace industry was clipped from 12% to 8%. The unionists had their own way in many policy matters, such as lifting the limit on catch-up settlements...
Americans accustomed to grumbling about bad train service and late mail deliveries can take some perverse delight in a joint foul-up that showed both of their demons at their worst. More than two years ago, a Penn Central railroad car carrying 319 sacks of mail and 1,874 parcel-post packages left Philadelphia for Birmingham...
...vanished, and neither postal authorities nor Penn Central's computers could figure out where it had gone. Last week, after 25 months, the railroad car turned up on a siding in Perryville, Md. Because of mechanical trouble, the car had been shunted off to be repaired or junked. Someone forgot about the mail, which was finally sent on its way marked "Delayed due to circumstances beyond the control of the U.S. Postal Service...
WILLIAM CODY killed 4280 buffalo in 1868, thus managing at the same time to feed the white men who were running a railroad through the plains and deprived the Plains Indians of their food supply. The buffalo slaughter wasn't the first atrocity committed by Europeans against the native American. When you consider the French wars against the Indians in New York and Canada, and Lord Jeffrey Amherst's gift of smallpox-infested blankets to his Indian friends, it was not the greatest. In fact, in Arthur Kopit's Indians Buffalo Bill even shows remorse for the slaughter. "I didn...
...Association of Railroad Passengers has been unable to interest any governmental unit in a proposal to scrape up $17.4 million to improve passenger service to the city's suburbs. Yet the Federal Government is spending $53.5 million to build slightly more than a mile of road just south of the city. The Government recently laid out $110 million to open a new six-lane segment of Interstate 95, which parallels an existing four-lane highway between Washington and Baltimore...