Word: railways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Domestic troubles would not stay down. He had an urgent problem to meet: the railroad strike threatened for this week. The President took the immediate heat off it by invoking the Railway Labor Act, appointing an emergency fact-finding board. But he resisted heavy pressures to intervene in the 16-week-old General Motors strike (see below). Following through on his plan to see labor leaders regularly, he talked long and (he reported) pleasantly with John L. Lewis and the A.F. of L.'s Carpenters' William L. Hutcheson...
From Mukden's railway station many trains chugged northward last week. Their cars were jammed with trucks, bicycles, ammunition-and Russians. The Soviet Army was evacuating Manchuria's largest metropolis, leaving the stunned, hungry, overcrowded city to the Chinese...
Reconversion. Gone-according to Sam Zemurray-are the reckless, nomadic days of banana planting when United Fruit used to rip out railway tracks from diseased plantations, leaving laborers to shift for themselves in the jungle. Now, rather than let its wartime abacá acreage go back to bush, United Fruit plans to let laborers have the land (which it got for little or nothing) and raise abacá as a peacetime "peasant crop." In 1944 the company opened an agricultural school at El Zamorano, Honduras, to train scientific dirt farmers free of charge...
...main street of Mukden's former modern Japanese area is now "Stalin Prospect." The Yamato Hotel is "Hotel of the Intourist Travel Agency of Moscow, U.S.S.R." Near Mukden's railway station is a granite-mounted Red Army tank, a memorial to Russian soldiers. Russian and Chinese flags fly together everywhere, but there is little doubt which flag dominates...
...late Colonel Edmund W. Starling (of the Kentucky colonels) might have spent a humdrum life in the South, stalking train robbers, pulling bums out of freight cars and convoying precious cargoes for the railway express company which he served as a detective. But his employers suggested cutting his pay to meet competition from parcel post. So young Starling flitted to the U.S. Secret Service...