The morning fog clings to the iron tracks as the railroads fracture into hundreds of private units, and I fear I’ll be the fall guy left standing on a cold platform with no way home. Every headline screams of labor disputes and shifting powers, while my stomach knots at the sight of the corner store window.
I handed over $0.11 for a single loaf of bread today, a price that feels like a heavy weight against my dwindling wages. Between the bobbed-hair girls in their beaded silk darting past and the static hum of those new radio stations, the world feels far too fast and much too expensive.
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The Headlines
RAILROAD SYSTEMS PASS TO OWNERS; EXECUTIVES APPEAL FOR PUBLIC'S HELP; LABOR EXPECTED TO ACCEPT SETTLEMENT; HINES TURNS OVER CARRIERS Great Federal System Breaks Up Into 230 Separate Units. DIRECTOR STAYS IN OFFICE Administration Has Hundreds of Disputes with Labor and Owners Still on Its Hands. ROADS FACE NEW CONDITIONS Must Meet Situation Caused by War and Enlarged Powers of Commerce Commission.