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Sickened friends and relatives identified the remains-Raymond Miller, who had just missed the 9:03, Martin Steeil, John Weeks, 26 others who had been in the head cars of No. 192 and No. 175. More than 100 were injured, many critically. It was the bankrupt Long Island's worst wreck, and the worst railroad wreck in the U.S. since April 1946, when 45 were killed on the Burlington Railroad at Naperville...
...Long Island Rail Road was bought in 1900 by the Pennsylvania. After 1935, with the exception of three war years, the Long Island lost money, and in March 1949 the Pennsylvania declared it bankrupt and said it was on its own. A few months later, the Nassau County Transit Commission charged that the Pennsylvania had systematically milked its subsidiary. It charged that: for the L.I.'s tugs and barges to move freight across New York Harbor, the Pennsy paid the L.I. only 35? a ton, collected as much as $1.10 from shippers; the Pennsy...
...turned out its 95,000,000th pair of Levis. It reserved a special tailor-made pair for California's Governor Earl Warren, who, as a father of six children, praised the low cost (about $3.50) and durability of Levis. Said he: "I'd probably have gone bankrupt without them." Editorialized the San Francisco Chronicle: "We are unable to think of any influence ... that has radiated outward from San Francisco ... to be compared with Levis...
Where was Glenn McCarthy going? Houstonians say: "He's going to kill himself, go bankrupt, or get to be the richest man on earth. You figure out which...
...will vote Conservative for the first time. "Labor's greatest failure," says Sewell vehemently, "is that it has not made ordinary working people realize that unless we first tighten our belts and then get down to the business of producing hell-for-leather, this country will go bankrupt and there will be millions out of work...