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Crystal Gazer. Before the week was out he had proof that his veto and reversal would win him friends-at least for the time being. Alexander Fell Whitney, who once threatened to spend millions of his Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen's dollars to beat Harry Truman, wired that his Brotherhood was "deeply grateful." Said tired Phil Murray: "President Truman is a good political crystal gazer and he knows that if he is going to be a successful candidate in 1948, he has to have the support of organized labor. Whether the veto is or is not a matter...
Clear-Cut. In Tokyo, the Railway Board, fed up with impetuous passengers, announced that henceforth it will demand a 500-yen ($10) charge for entering a train through a glass window...
Moscow's telephone operators learned one way to talk to Molotov: pick up a phone in Iowa, U.S.A., and call him up. Jovial Smoky Schroeder, a 200-pound Iowa railway fireman, gave more details...
High Ball. Railroader Robert R. Young's plan for merging the Pere Marquette Railway Co. with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., which has controlled the Pere Marquette since 1929, was put into effect last week. The Pere Marquette, whose main lines are in Michigan, will hereafter be known as the C. & O. The new railroad system will have 5,000 miles of main-line track, be the seventh biggest in the U.S. in operating revenues...
...railroader, Coulter started as a track hand during the summer while attending Colby College in Waterville, Me. After graduation he took a job as clerk with the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Co. By 1942 he was chief traffic officer and vice president of a trucking subsidiary. St. Louis knew him as one of the nattiest dressers who ever slipped into a blue double-breasted suit...