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First the railroads asked for a 15% freight-rate rise. ICC said 5.3% was enough. Then they asked for a 15% wage cut. Franklin Roosevelt's Railway Fact-Finding Board said No. This left the railroads, stretched between the engine of rising costs and the caboose of lagging traffic, with no recourse but legislative aid. So Mr. Roosevelt asked three railroad officials and three railroad labor officers to prepare proposals for Congress...
...ever since October, cudgeling their brains four days a week with the aid of a battery of experts, have been the six railroaders-Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally reported...
Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...
...China" that foreigners have known since 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took over the Government, was the China of the seaboard provinces. Most of it is now ruled by Japanese arms. Its capital, Nanking, centre of the web of roads, railways and airlines which Chiang Kai-shek spun across the map of China, fell to the Japanese a year ago last week. New China moved westward to Hankow and carried on. Two months ago advancing Japanese forces straddled both ends of the vital Canton-Hankow railway (completed in 1936) which skirted the western frontier of Chiang's original...
...Squilla (The Scream) was an Italian Socialist newspaper directed by Roberto Farinacci before the War, but after he gave up his original profession as a railway station "baggage-smasher" and stationmaster. After the War, he and a certain Mussolini were known as two of the several "Fathers of Fascism." Of the five Secretaries-General which the Party has had (1923-38), Farinacci was the second (1924-26). He was kicked out after getting mixed up in the Cremona bank scandals, resumed editorship in Cremona of his newspaper Il Regime Fascista (The Fascist Regime...