Railway Age 1961 January 23 Weekly Grab bag Subsidized motherhood Payment to get

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Railway Age Weekly January 23 1961 Vol 150 No 4
CONTENTS
Ike urges transport department p. 9
In his last budget message to Congress, the retiring President proposed the creation of a cabinet-level transportation post, also suggested that the White House appoint future ICC chairmen.
Rail program cuts D&H costs p.1 1
The road has launched a project that in about four years will see a high percentage of its track being laid with continuous welded rail.
Cover Story-RUIA: 'Grab Bag for the Idle' p. 16
Glaring inequities in the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act are costing railroads $55 million a year. Included in the "grab" are such items as benefit payments to strikers and to men who quit their job; maternity benefits that amount to "subsidized motherhood"; and liberal sickness benefits.
Cover Story-More roads use intercity dial phonesp.25
Direct distance dial telephone systems are a potent weapon in the railroads' battle for traffic-passenger and freight.
New York subways get new cars p.26
Ten cars of 550 ordered from St. Louis Car Co. are in service on the city's BMT line. The cars, built to operate in pairs, have four sets of double doors on each side.
U.S. passenger agency is urged p.27
The possibility of consolidating the nation's passenger services under a single agency is in the spotlight today. Here's the approach suggested by Prof. Charles E. Stonier.
How Santa Fe jet-cleans cars p.30
Passenger cars are cleaned now in a fraction of the time it once took. It's done with high-velocity air cleaners, called Windjammers. The road uses three of them in Chicago.
'Bury intermodal differences' p.34
That was the advice given at the TAA's annual National Transportation Institute in Chicago last week. Panelists urged industry-wide action to combat the threat of private carriage.
The Action Page-Unions and 'security'p.38
What kind of security have railroad employees and their unions won for themselves? Is it real, or only a glittering counterfeit? Now, more than ever, is the time to reappraise the meaning of "social security."

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