Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with great interest your article on the opening of Great Lakes navigation under Business & Finance in TIME, April 26, but take exception to your description of the movement of iron ore from mine to vessel. Obviously, no steam shovel or mine skip could load ore into a box car, as is suggested by your statement: ". . . box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports. . . ." Actually, 75-ton hopper cars are used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling innovations...
...Frank L. Shaw, motoring near the National Capitol during Mayor Shaw's recent visit in Washington." Candidate Ford offered "final and conclusive" proof that Mayor Shaw had not motored with the Roosevelts in Washington, that a picture taken when Mayor Shaw rode through Los Angeles in the Roosevelt car during the Presidential campaign was superimposed on a Capitol background...
Raids by swooping bandits on U. S. passenger trains did not long survive their most eminent practitioner, Jesse James. Much different in technique are the raids still made on freight trains. Freight car robbers work often on moving trains, choose sparsely settled country where a highway runs beside the tracks. Swinging off from box car roofs on rope ladders, they break the seals on the doors, climb in and toss out everything they can lay their hands on. Confederates in trucks pick up the loot...
Last week the Association of American Railroads reported that claims resulting from freight car thefts in the U. S. and Canada totaled $688,792 in 1936, lowest for any year on record. Biggest losses were in coal and coke, stolen not only by organized gangs but by individuals who needed fuel. Professional train robbers concentrated on tobacco products, jettisoned $125,000 worth during the year. Railroad police kept their record clear on liquor shipments, in which no highjacking cases have been reported since Repeal...
...referee's court the matter of Babushkin's cash checks soon came to light. Babushkin could give no reasonable explanation. Bogen swore his partner had been victimizing him. Babushkin went to jail. Smart Guy Bogen, totting up his assets, found he had $20,000, a car, an apartment, a snappy wardrobe, an actress. And he was still a smart...