The article details significant events reported by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on May 18 across various years. In 1900, strong stock market performance was attributed to various favorable economic factors. By 1911, a National race car set a speed record at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The drama of 1918 saw baseball star Joe Jackson ordered for military service amid World War I efforts. In 1946, President Truman intervened to postpone a nationwide railroad strike, aiming to resolve wage disputes and avert economic disruption, highlighting the ongoing tensions in labor relations post-war.
Today's stock market showed good general strength... as a result of the gas war settlement, the probability of an early sugar war settlement... favorable bank statement.
W.C. Poertner, Eastern distributor for the National car, has just received word... the fastest time ever made on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway... averaging 91.83 miles per hour.
Joe Jackson... was ordered today by his draft board here to report immediately for active service.
President Truman won a five-day postponement of the nationwide railroad strike... hoped the negotiations would lead to an agreement that would turn the strike postponement into a permanent settlement.
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