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...five C.I.O. maritime unions would be able to complete negotiations before their contracts expire June 15. Whitney announced that the five operating brotherhoods, freed from the one-year moratorium on rules changes imposed by President Truman, would start all over again through the time-consuming procedures of the Railway Labor...
...kinds of people hurried to his support. Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, the new and energetic publisher of the Denver Post, backed him editorially. So, to Denver's surprise, did the Post's archenemy, the Rocky Mountain News. Most of the city's railway brotherhoods were for him. So were most of its C.I.O. unions, 300 of 412 Republican precinct committeewomen. Quigg Newton's campaign was a model of politeness. Instead of berating Old Ben (Denver wasn't exactly mad at him, it was just tired of him) Newton simply called for change...
Chinese Communist armies had the initiative in Manchuria. Moving down from the north, they cut the railway that connects the Manchurian capital, Changchun, with Government strongholds farther south. Then the Communists advanced toward Changchun itself. Inside the city, spruce, gimlet-eyed General Tu Yu-ming, Government commander for all Northeast China, tried to decide whether the Communists were out to capture Manchuria's capital or only worry...
Scientists first heard of verruga in 1870, during the building of the Central Railway, when 7,000 workers died before the rails had been pushed out of the valley. The first investigator of the disease was a medical student named Daniel A. Carrión, now a Peruvian national hero, who died after inoculating himself with serum from a patient's wart. Verruga is still something of a medical mystery. Nobody has ever found out how the sandfly acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have...
...declared itself bankrupt, said Young, it had $246 million in cash, bonds, and "quotable collateral" which it could have used to pay its RFC loans. The B. & O. has argued that it needed its cash for working capital. Young said this was nonsense. His own rich Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., which did its biggest business ever in World War II, did it with a working capital of only a few million dollars...