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...summer day in 1948 William C. Chance, an aging Negro high-school principal, got aboard an Atlantic Coast Line railway coach in Philadelphia, bound for his home in Parmele, N.C. When the train crossed into Virginia, the conductor asked Principal Chance to move into a Jim Crow car for the rest of his ride. Chance refused, was taken off the train at Emporia, Va. and arrested for disorderly conduct. He sued for $25,000 damages...
...turned out, Boshell didn't work himself out of a job after all. For in his handling of the intricate Pittsburgh Railways reorganization, he so impressed Pittsburgh's potent Mellons that they asked him to take on the vacant presidency of famed old Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Last year, at 49, Boshell did so. Last week, as he began winding up what is now his sideline job at Standard, Boshell was busily expanding Westinghouse Air Brake from its traditional railway equipment into such new fields as electronics, pneumatic tools...
Several professors yesterday agreed the Supreme Court's refusal to review a lower court decision prohibiting segregation of Negroes on railway cars was a small step--but a step forward, at any rate--in the fight against Jim Crow laws in the South...
...Abraham Lincoln) will "start a historical argument." I doubt it ... You are correct in saying that the photograph was taken at Hanover Junction, Pa., by Mathew B. Brady, the famous Civil War photographer. However, the assumption that it shows Lincoln on the way to Gettysburg is nothing but a railway pressagent's wishful thinking...
Last week a Neapolitan street railway official phoned the police to report the distressing theft of a half-ton of trolley tracks and overhead trolley wire from an abandoned line in a Naples suburb. Naples' police rounded up the thieves (they had worked for three weeks in the bright Neapolitan sunshine ripping up the rails, even recruiting hired laborers to help), and wearily set to work on a new chore-patrolling the miles of trolley track still unstolen...