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...Ignoring the "Little Steel" formula, a National Railway Labor Panel emergency board recommended to the President an 8?-an-hour wage boost for over one million nonoperating railroad employes...
...biggest damage was done to railway communications. Actual industrial damage was secondary but no less important: entire townships of workers' homes rendered completely uninhabitable; power stations destroyed; telephone and power lines ripped out; water supplies for the big industries reduced for at least a year, until the dams could be repaired and the reservoirs refilled after the slack water season...
Armadas of Wellingtons and Marauders, Fortresses and Mitchells flared out from North Africa and the Middle East to continue these attacks against island airfields, harbor installations and gun emplacements, to strike at railway yards, airfields and ports on the Italian mainland. The damage to defense bases was great ; the damage to aircraft greater. In four days Allied airmen knocked out 305 Axis planes. Allied plane losses...
...There was tall Major Bernard Ferguson, who left a lieutenant colonelcy on Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell's staff to lead a column of raiders. When he watched the Bonchaung railway bridge rise in a cloud of smoke and then settle into the gorge, the Major said softly: "Now I know that all my life I've wanted to blow up bridges...
WASHINGTON--An emergency board of the National Railway Labor Panel recommended to President Roosevelt today that the more than 1,000,000 non-operating railroad employes be granted a general wage increase of eight cents an hour, 12 cents less than they had demanded. The raise would be retroactive...