Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find the reason for the death of young Juan Rubiera, reporters had to go back to last September when a carload of hired assassins shot Dr. Clemente Vasquez Bello in front of his home (TIME, Oct. 10). People get shot in Cuba nearly every day but Dr. Bello was something special. Not only was he Speaker of the Cuban Senate, but a very intimate friend of Dictator-President Gerardo Machado. Within an hour of Dr. Bello's murder members of the Porra or Machado strong-arm squad attempted to assassinate Dr. Ricardo Dolz, anti-Machado leader and Rector...
...Still in Athens, last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express...
...late Mr. Kearns entered the burlap business in '88, succeeding with his brother the firm of J. P. Kearns & Co. dealing in burlaps, a pioneer in that line. Instead of doing business from dilapidated hand carts he bought and sold in carload lots, until his retirement from business in 1922. . . . When he retired from business he continued to invest his money and was known along La Salle Street as a shrewd bond buyer. He never dealt in old rags, junk or bottles and was never known as "Bill...
...Washington Bridge (Manhattan to Fort Lee. N. J.). It also owns and operates profitably the Holland Vehicular Tunnel, is now planning a second vehicular tube under the Hudson. It is building a 16- million-dollar inland terminal to be used as a receiving centre for all less-than-a-carload railroad freight. An efficient, businesslike, self-sustaining public agency, it is comparatively free from petty politics.-ED. Smart Farmer Sirs...
...sells to all comers, principally Canada and Japan. The latter has recently been a heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel. One dealer foisted off a shipment of pipes filled with sand to increase the weight. All scrap is now graded...