Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends of Senate days: Montana's brusque Burt Wheeler and Wyoming's earnest Joe O'Mahoney. Frankly and flatly they told the President that he was asking the party to wreck itself; perhaps it would be better all around if he withdrew the bill. The rail strike was over; the coal strike was close to settlement. Harry Truman was no longer hopping mad; he thought hard about the political implications of his swift decision five days before. He would consider withdrawing the measure, but he gave no promise...
...grain was there. How fast could it be moved? Actual shipments of wheat abroad still lagged behind U.S. promises (see box). Only a month remained to make good, and neither the rail strike nor the threatened shipping strike improved the slim chances of beating the deadline...
...brotherhoods, forged in the fires and blood of the 1877 rail strikes (see cut), now are rich, conservative, and strictly disciplined. Whitney and Johnston typify the transition. Each is a proud, rugged individualist who rules his tight little empire with strong hands, who has settled himself at the top of his union heap by keeping a strong thumb on the opposition...
...Banker." Even though his Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is the aristocrat of rail unions, stocky Alvanley Johnston is not the aristocrat of rail union leaders. Except for blunders which almost wrecked it, his 21-year career at the top has been notable for stodgy conservatism and heavy-handed secrecy...
...Engineer Jackson wanted to get technical, he could have rattled off any number of the bewildering rules that govern his brotherhood and the rail operators. Most of the rules were 40 years old, or older; many were outworn; many no longer made sense. It was a rare railroader who knew them all, or understood 75% of them...