10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWITCHMAN»
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switchman in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
switchman and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
Switchman. The stranger arrived at the deserted station out of breath. His large
suitcase, which nobody carried for him, had really tired him out. He mopped his
face with a handkerchief, and with his hand shading his eyes, gazed at the tracks
...
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, 1999
2
The Spanish American Short Story: A Critical Anthology
Arreola presents, in this relatively long story for him, his interpretation of the mid-
twentieth-century world. The fantastic events narrated by the old switchman
constitute Arreola's reply to materialism and Existentialism. He admits sadly that
we do ...
3
Confabulario and Other Inventions
Switchman. The stranger arrived at the deserted station out of breath. His large
suitcase, which nobody carried for him, had really tired him out. He mopped his
face with a handkerchief, and with his hand shading his eyes, gazed at the tracks
...
4
Cultures and Societies in a Changing World
The. Cultural. Switchman. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,
Weber showed how a set of religious ideas influenced the way people worked,
spent their money, and ordered their economic lives. The result of a particular ...
... Do J. Richardson. 135 8t. Hilaire J. Valiqiietle. 125 1 Porter at 90 cents per
diem. St. Hyacinthe. . . . O. MacCoy . . . do 160 Britannia Mills. . . Ticket Clerk.. 90
$1.15 per diem porter and switchman. do 90 125 1 switchman at 90 cents per
diem ...
Canada. Legislature. Legislative Assembly, 1857
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Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Enquire and ...
(11.15 per diem porter and switchman. 1 switchman at 90 cents per diem. 1
porter (1,1 switchman 9n cents. 1 switchman, 80 cents per diem. 1 do do do 5
porters. 90 cents ; 1 switchman, 95 cent*. Loco stable, 1 porter at 75 cents per
diem 1 ...
Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Special Committee on the Condition, Management and Prospect of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, 1857
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Classified Index of Occupations: Fifteenth Census of the ...
Crossing tender, street railroad Flagman, street railroad Signalman, street
railroad Switch tender, street railroad Switchman, elevated railroad Switchman,
street railroad Switchman, subway Towerman, street railroad Watchman, street
railroad ...
Alba M. Edwards, Leon Edgar Truesdell, 1930
8
Moral Principles and Nuclear Weapons
If the switchman does nothing, the trolley will collide with the trolley ahead and
five people will die. If the switchman throws the switch, the trolley will go on a
spur, collide with another trolley, and two people will die. M Most people think
that it is ...
9
Pig Notes & Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry
The. Crossing. Some years ago, a packed school bus returning late at night from
a basketball game collided with a train. Several deaths, many injuries. At the
crossing, there was supposed to be a switchman swinging a lighted lantern to
stop ...
switchman's failing to throw the switch. Should we say that there was also an
event that consisted in your failing to throw the switch ? And then did you too
cause the deaths that ensued? Most people, I am sure, would say no: they would
say ...
Judith Jarvis Thomson, 1992
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWITCHMAN»
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In the 1960s, Weeks worked as a telephone operator when she applied for a higher-paying position as a switchman. She was denied on the basis that the job ... «News from Tulane, Jul 15»
A Look Back in Time: June 24, 1915
C.S. Jones, a former switchman for the Burlington railroad in Sheridan, is asking for $20,000 for the loss of a leg while he was performing his duties as ... «Sheridan Media, Jun 15»
Szabo takes the throttle at CMAP
Szabo was the first FRA chief to come from the ranks of rail workers, having served as a conductor and switchman with the Illinois Central Railroad and Metra, ... «RailwayAge Magazine, Jun 15»
The Freezer Chest
He lived in a small one-bedroom flat on the edge of town, and he had a girlfriend whose name was Majken but whom everyone called the Switchman's Shanty, ... «The New Yorker, May 15»
Joseph Szabo says goodbye to Federal Railroad Administration …
His father, a former switchman and rail labor union officer who was 81 and in good health when Szabo joined the FRA, now is 87 and dealing with several ... «Progressive Rail Roading, Jan 15»
Rail workers defend safety, reject bosses' 1-person 'crew' proposal
That's what happened at the meeting I attended,” Chris Rayson, a 20-year BNSF worker currently serving as a yard switchman at the railroad's South Seattle ... «The Militant, Sep 14»
Calif. Man Says Test Proves He's East Village Dad Who Vanished …
The positive test caps a bizarre transcontinental journey for Seku that he said began on Oct. 12, 1990, when, then Winston Bright, he left his job as a switchman ... «DNAinfo, Feb 14»
Advances in switch machines and stands
National Trackwork offers new Mechanical Switchman and rebuilds old units to like-new specifications. The Mechanical Switchman takes the place of a ... «Railway Track & Structures, Nov 13»
CTA Suspends Switchman In Sept. 30 Blue Line Crash
Bottom line: A so-called switchman has been suspended without pay for something the National Transportation Safety Board concluded was standard operating ... «CBS2 Chicago, Oct 13»
Union to CTA: Scrap Ventra until problems are fixed
Meanwhile, Kelly also said the CTA has disciplined a rail switchman in connection with an empty runaway train that crashed into a train that was in service on ... «Chicago Tribune, Oct 13»
