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...final destination of the team is still undecided, although selection has narrowed down to two probable sites, either the University of Caen, in France, or a railway project in Yugoslavia...
There seemed to be no way to achieve industrial peace except by giving labor what Sam Gompers once set as labor's chief aim: "More and more." In the spring of 1946 a kind of climax occurred. The great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President...
Chiang's only definite success of the week was military. His troops in both northern and southern Shantung made good progress in the campaign to clear the Tientsin-Pukow railway line, one of the major links between northern and central China. The Communist position in south Shantung had been disorganized by the defection of General Ho Peng-chu, who had been first a Japanese, then a Communist puppet. Ho was captured by the Communists eleven days after he switched over to the Government with his 15,000 men; but the damage had been done, and the Nationalists were able...
...Young had only begun to prod. This week, in the midst of his maneuvering to take over control of the giant New York Central, Young launched his new Federation for Railway Progress. With onetime Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as chairman of an advisory committee representing the public, the Federation will be open to security holders, labor, shippers and anybody else interested in "revitalizing the industry...
...Dear Mr. Winton: I appreciate that the tires are made of real rubber five-eighths of an inch thick. . . . But I might run over a railway spike or something else that would pierce even their tough resistance. In such case, what should I do? No one [in Vermont] can suggest how a repair might be effected...