Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, obviously, we have a morgueful of material on those subjects, but it would take a boxcar to deliver it to our hungry reader. The best we could do in his case was explain how to go about using the nearest public library...
...amid Shortages. A newcomer to prefabs, Cajun Jack is no newcomer to the plywood and lumber industry. He has been in & out of it ever since he took solemn leave of the seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
...American Car & Foundry Co.'s big boxcar plant at Madison, Ill. (across the Mississippi from St. Louis), has a base reputation among red-hot unionists, has had many strikes and stoppages. Last week, to the amazement of its C.I.O and A.F. of L. workers, A.C. & F. was accused of pro-union activity. The National Labor Relations Board decided that A. C. & F. had fired a Negro chainman to satisfy employes who refused to work with him because he would not join the A. F. of L. NLRB's ukase to the company: reinstate the man, "cease and desist...
Lock, Stock & Barrel. In Waterville, Me., Farmer Ray Gilbert & wife loaded a satchel, a hatbox, a few other small pieces, an iron bed, an automobile, a dog, nine head of cattle and themselves into a boxcar, and headed for California...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...