Word: carloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week TV was busy traveling by rail, highway and air. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on a run from Washington to Jersey City, took along an observation carload of reporters to witness the first use of a TV set on a train. The receiver was specially built by Bendix engineers to eliminate such bugs as landscape blocks, high speed (the train hit 80 m.p.h.), and static caused by passing trains. Biggest problem was the antenna. Because of the low clearances allowed by trestles, tunnels and overpasses, the antenna could rise only 15¾ inches above...
Guilty. In New York courts last week, two skimmers of the land's fat got the bill. Grey Marketeer and Lawyer Isadore Ginsberg (TIME, Jan. 26) was convicted of grand larceny (for accepting $1,575 for a carload of rock lath that he never delivered). Gus Fusaro, $50-a-week financial district elevator man who played the market for his friends and lost $250,000 of their money, was convicted of grand larceny and operating a bucket shop...
...Neil and Mrs. Drucker also spent an evening with O'Dwyer at Gracie Mansion, which was being redecorated (one room, according to O'Dwyer, looked "like a carload of false teeth"), and when they left at midnight the Mayor uttered the words from which the story's cover caption was taken. Said he: "Do whatever you like with me in your story, but give New York a break. I love it. It's a hell of a town...
...cigarettes (which sell for 30^ to 40^ a package) come in by the carload. Nylons lie deep on department-store shelves. The newest Parker pens are fast sellers at most stationers. In old Juarez, some storekeepers are well stocked with U.S. tinned goods carried across the international bridge from El Paso, a few pounds at a time, by "carrier rats"-troops of black-shawled old women...
Americans were responding. Item: a carload of clothing for Europe from the students of Missouri's Park College. Item: 40 home-made wash dresses shipped off by the Ladies Relief Society of the Mormon Church in Indianapolis. Item: a triple boost in the number of CARE packages sent abroad last year. The plight of Europe had touched the hearts of men, women & children in the U.S., a nation which had come from Europe...