Born in Denison, Texas, on 14 October 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the son of a section hand on the railroad.
‘There is nothing wrong with working as a railroad section hand but when a group of people are branded for employment only in one particular task there is something radically wrong,’ he contended.
Some twenty-five hundred Blackfeet found employment as railroad section hands or agency personnel.
Definition of section hand in US English:
section hand
noun
A member of a section gang.
Example sentencesExamples
‘There is nothing wrong with working as a railroad section hand but when a group of people are branded for employment only in one particular task there is something radically wrong,’ he contended.
Some twenty-five hundred Blackfeet found employment as railroad section hands or agency personnel.
Born in Denison, Texas, on 14 October 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the son of a section hand on the railroad.