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...almost 20 years A.F. of L. had been entrenched in the city-owned Detroit Street Railway, but it never even tried to organize anyone except the 4,000 operators. Six months ago C.I.O. moved in, soon boasted it had signed up a majority of the D.S.R.'s 1,534 maintenance men and office workers. It began signing up operators...
...Reza Shah Pahlavi had successfully played off British, Russian and other European interests against each other, but now Britain and Russia were working together. Into Iran from Iraq in the west marched a British column. More British troops landed at Bandar Shahpur, southern terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway. To the north Red Army troops began their long trek through the mountains into Iran from Russian Armenia. In India's northwest province of Baluchis tan other British forces stood ready to attack from the east. Directing Britain's whole effort was General Sir Archibald Wavell...
...Smolensk is a dead city like Pompeii. ... En route we saw burning villages and forests aflame, and more farmhouses destroyed. With the exception of one bank and one hotel, Smolensk was completely destroyed, with all houses burned down, streets blown up, railway cars, trams, autobusses wrecked...
...dean of Wall Street brokers"; in Manhattan. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1885, weathered five panics, sold the first U.S. Steel common-120,000 shares the first day-created a sensation in 1926 when he noiselessly bought control of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. for Speyer & Co. and a western road...
...same urgency class as Maritime Commission merchant ships. But with steelmakers choked on A-1 and A-2 orders and those of their regular civilian customers, car builders found their rating as useless as a next season's theater pass. The results, as reported in the Railway...