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Railroads, disappointed, said they would accept the proposal. But chiefs of the five operating brotherhoods, more disappointed, flatly rejected it, declared that they would, by gum, strike at the expiration of the 30-day waiting period required by the Railway Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Danger Signal | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...week dark with threats of labor trouble, an angry, faraway hoot from the railway unions announced that they would tie up the nation's rail systems with a strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Danger Signal | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...hour for employes of the Railway Express Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Danger Signal | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...night. In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Crash at Dunkirk | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Vladivostok has been temporarily abandoned as a port of entry for U.S. goods, not only because of the danger of friction with Japan. Vladivostok, though much farther south, has more ice than Archangel. Besides, the long Trans-Siberian Railway is far too busy carrying troops to the front and machinery from it. But Vladivostok could be used in a pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: SUPPLY: Aid on the Wharves | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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