Unemployment lingo

[Victor]

See here
www.amtrakengineer.net/Gamst07crane.pdf

and here
http://cprr.org/CPRR_Discussion_Group/2007/09/cranes-neck.html

This is just to confirm the unclear status of the claim, but with clear
inference that non-existent evidence makes it more likely that this was
just an urban legend. This was also fed by the fact that different
railroad companies used different Crane stationary, as demonstrated in
the second post.

    VS-)

James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
> I have since discovered that the broken-neck crane might be an urban
> legend. Variations of the story exist, some citing the 1894 Pullman
> strike, others a 1920 strike in Chicago, and giving different
> watermarks. As far as I know, nobody has ever located a
> broken-neck-crane letter.
>

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