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...foresaw the heights inflation would reach, the government signed a contract with the All India Railwaymen's Federation. It included a cost-of-living allowance pegged to rising prices. The government argued later that it could not keep the contract without contributing to the disastrous price spiral. The railway federation, dominated by Jai Prakash Narain's Socialist Party, screamed that it had been betrayed. In December its 350,000 members voted to strike on March...
Most enterprising campaign manager was Dunbar Rapier, a Negro third-year premedical student, whose candidate was Beryl Dickinson-Dash, 21-year-old daughter of a Montreal railway porter. Rapier posed Beryl before the snow sculpture decorating the campus for carnival week, then tacked the photographs all over the campus. He persuaded Montreal radio shows to get in a word for his candidate...
...Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades and cavernous interiors were patterns for many an American municipal building, railway station, temple of industry and commerce...
...were losing more & more business to trucks, which were hauling 12% more than a year ago, and barges, which were carrying 20% more. "Rate increases," said ICC, "may be carried to the point where they are largely self-defeating." As an example, it cited the fact that while the Railway Express Agency, Inc. got three increases totaling 46% last year, its revenue decreased...
Sherlock Doyle. In 1903, he was obliged to revive Sherlock Holmes-and the scenes at the railway bookstalls, says a contemporary, "were worse than anything I ever saw at a bargain sale." He demonstrated his own detective brilliance when a colored clergyman was sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime that Doyle was convinced he had never committed. Using Holmes's own methods, Doyle tracked down the real criminal and vindicated the imprisoned parson...