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...injunction presumably would apply until the railway wage dispute has been settled. It was no nearer settlement last week than it was eight weeks ago, when Judge Goldsborough issued his temporary order and the Army took over nominal operation of the roads. The engineers, firemen and switchmen still wanted more than double the 15½?-an-hour raise which a fact-finding board had recommended as a fair settlement. Their demands were louder than ever now because, they said, even while they had been arguing, the cost of living had gone up. The conductors and trainmen, who had accepted...
...this was no business of Goldsborough's. His only concern was in forestalling a "process which will disintegrate society,"-i.e., a railway strike...
...scorched wood. On street corners, people gathered to haggle over the exchange rate between Soviet and Western marks or to buy black market herring. At the Anhalter station, where the city's food supplies from the Western zones used to roll in, before the Russians blocked the railway, only a few forlorn figures stirred-an old man in ill-fitting Wehrmacht breeches, a pasty blonde in a threadbare dress. Between the idle, rusting tracks, wisps of grass and thin white flowers sprouted...
...years ago the Ontario Northland Railway called on chefs of the province for a typical Ontario dish to set before tourists. First prize went to a thrifty meat pie (rabbit, chicken or beef). Saskatchewan ran the same kind of contest, finally gave the first prize to a doughy chicken turnover. In cattle-conscious Alberta a third competition ended up with an old standby: a king-sized steak...
Bittersweet. Railroad equipment makers built 10,387 freight cars for domestic use in June, for the first time this year reached their goal of 10,000 cars a month. But S. M. Felton, president of the American Railway Car Institute, was still unhappy. Dwindling steel deliveries, said he, threaten to put July production below the goal...