Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in a troopship headed up the coast. After that, for unending years, life for them will be only the salt and henequen of the Three Marys...
...nothing about elevators," says Howe, "so there was nothing to hamper me." He worked out new ways of speeding up construction and designed cost-cutting improvements. To replace the slow process of unloading grain with hand shovels, he developed the Howe Car Dumper, a machine which can lift a boxcar full of grain off the railway track, tip it over and empty it in eight minutes. It is still in use at most Canadian terminals...
False Alarm. In Indianapolis, police rushed to the freight yards to look for a dismembered body in a boxcar, found Howard Finley resting beside his wooden...
...Eleanor Parker), a fortune-hunting legal secretary charged with telling a client (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2,000,000, decides to make a favorable impression on the heir apparent before spilling the good news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money has flown. His problem, and an interminably coy movie, could have been mercifully forestalled by a phone call in the first reel...
...Sullivan $125,000 a year (compared with his $35,000 annual income from the News), and beginning this week the sponsor, Lincoln-Mercury, will pay more than $2,225,000 to keep the show on for its fourth year of television. Sullivan, who is a little dizzied by these boxcar numbers, remembers that the talent on his first program, including Rodgers & Hammerstein, who worked for nothing, cost only $270. He says: "We couldn't get the same people today for less than...