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...Federal Mediation Board having failed to compose differences between Southern Pacific R. R. and 3.000 enginemen and trainmen who asked for shorter hours and more pay, the President proclaimed an emergency under the Railway Labor Act, appointed a special arbitration board of three, prohibited a strike for 30 days until the board could review the case...
Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around...
HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
...until 14 years later did the roads divide the U. S. into four time zones-Eastern, Central, Mountain. Pacific-one hour apart and spaced by meridians 15° apart in longitude. By then the Dowd idea had been turned over to William F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association, and to him has gone most of the credit for Standard Time in the U. S. Dr. Dowd saw most of the credit for dividing the whole world into 24 time zones go to Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian railway engineer and university chancellor. As a final irony. Dr. Dowd...
...Madison Square Garden was being built and again in 1914 at the beginning of the War, no shows were held. Preceding, as it has survived, Stanford White's tower, the first horse show was held in Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been at every horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that...