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Slichter pointed out that on December 21, the leaders of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and three other brotherhoods signed a memorandum agreement which called for a three-year moratorium on strikes based on wage and rule demands, in exchange for wage increases and other concessions...
...American International Corp. retained him for a big job in China: negotiation of a $130 million loan for railway and canal construction. The trip to the Orient became part of Austin's broadening horizon of travel; at other times, on bar-association or diplomatic business, he has also been to Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Near East and the Philippines...
...London, outspoken Lady Astor spoke out again: "I hope the English have not lost their power of protesting, for protesting against what is wrong made us great. My husband says I protest every time I get on the railways. Well, it's our job to protest. When I see some of our railway people with their jackets undone, I say to them: 'Who do you think you are -Italians? Button up your jackets...
Palace Gates is a spur-line railway station in the drab reaches of London's northern suburbs. Into Palace Gates one morning last week panted the little two-coach train which invariably leaves at 10:15 for Seven Sisters, where commuters invariably set down at 10:21 on the dot, transfer to the main line to London's financial district. With a few minutes to spare, Driver Percy Playle and his fireman left the cab for a quick...
From all over India's province of Bihar and across the border from Nepal, the blind and the nearly blind arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering...