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...Medal for Labor. In the House, leaders were trying to jam through a labor law, already approved by the Senate, which would give the railroad unions the checkoff and the union shop (barred by the Railway Labor Act). Virginia's lean, conservative Howard Smith dourly protested. Smith didn't see "why we should confer the Medal of Honor on labor for pulling a railway strike when we've got a war in Korea." When Speaker Sam Rayburn persisted in trying to call up the bill, Smith demanded a roll call...
...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...tall buildings in Canton. Merchants were told to ship inflammable goods inland. Industrial machinery and commodities were also being transferred. Plans for dispersal of the city's 1,000,000 population were reported. The families of Red officials were trekking to Kukong, 150 miles up the Canton-Hankow railway...
Status Quo. In Newport News, Va., Railway Owner W. C. King Jr. took on a new partner, Jeff L. Robins, heralded the event in the local Daily Press: "You will receive the same lousy service . . . probably even higher prices, and the only real difference is that Jeff shares in the profits, if any, or has to make up part of the losses...
French Backbone. Last week I drove into the delta country. The spine of the new defense is a road, railway and power line running straight from Hanoi to Haiphong. Small crossroads, sticking out like ribs, are nodal points at which the French concentrate their mobile reserves ready to put out to any threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light...