Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days. After serving three consecutive terms in Congress, he was defeated last November by Democrat John W. Boehne. And last week he was arrested at Evansville, Ind., charged with having accepted $750 from two relatives of one Gresham Ayer in return for recommending Ayer to be a rural mail carrier.* Venal Lame Duck Rowbottom refused to say anything about the case when he posted $10,000 bond and was released pending organization of a Federal Grand Jury...
United Press has accepted the status of common carrier, but has thus far avoided any costly dispute over its implied obligation, to do business with each & every applicant...
I.C.C. Most startling, most important of the Commission's eleven recommendations in its report was that for the repeal of the recapture clause of the Transportation Act of 1920. Under this provision the I.C.C. was authorized to take one-half of a carrier's profits in excess of 5.75% and deposit them in a Federal fund for the use of weaker roads. So bitterly have the roads fought recapture in the courts (the famed O'Fallon case turned on it [TIME, May 29, 1929]) that the Commission has collected only a scant...
...week to attend the keel-laying ceremonies of U. S. Line's new 30,000-ton passenger ship, as yet unnamed, to be launched from Way O of New York Shipbuilding Co.'s Camden, N. J. yard this week. It was on Way O that the aircraft carrier Saratoga was built. The U. S. Line's new liner will be 705 ft. long, have a beam of 86 ft., a speed of 20 knots. It will be the largest merchantman ever built...
Last week plans were announced for a holding company to be known as Carrier Corp. It will take over Carrier Engineering, Brunswick-Kroeschell Co. (specialists in marine refrigeration), and York Heating & Ventilating Corp., Philadelphia. Each company will retain its identity, but Carrier Corp. will conduct all research, direct sales and engineering activities...