Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Walter Patten Murphy, 69, often called "richest bachelor," boxcar manufacturer (Standard Railway Equipment), donor of Northwestern University's $6,735,000 Technological Institute; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. He built a fortune estimated at $80,000,000 on his development of a corrugated steel end for boxcars. He kept his private life so private that when he made his gift to Northwestern in 1939 the university had to look him up in Who's Who to find...
...railroads insist that no cars can be loaded unless they can be promptly unloaded. By fall, said one railroader, "We are going to have ten places to put boxcars for every boxcar we have got." Thus no cars can be used for storage purposes. Any shipper who tries it will be promptly embargoed...
...Government urging, Pullmans are being converted to coaches, which hold more passengers. On a siding at Washington's Union Station stands an experimental contraption, looking like a cross between boxcar and coach, which the Government may make 1943's standard commuting...
This freight train of boxcar numbers was too much for editorialists, who tiptoed away, began talking of something else. The New York Times told its readers: "It is more profitable ... to discuss objectives and principles." The New York Herald Tribune simply gave up without a twitch, headlined its budget editorial: "Next: A Real Production Head...
...counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went through muddy, snake-infested jungle strips along the coast...