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Word: deckers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted to U. S. railroads (TIME, April 26). As a result of these experiments the Pullman Co. last week had 37 new Roomettes building in Chicago, plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Roomettes | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Near Clarksdale. Miss., a colored sharecropper named James Wiggins and his commonlaw wife. Ethel Davis, owed $175 to their white boss, Joseph Shelley Decker, who was afraid they might decamp without paying. What this situation led to was described last week by Clarksdale's Sheriff H. H. Dogan after he had been summoned to the 200-acre Decker farm by Sharecropper Wiggins. Said Sheriff Dogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debt Collection | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...went to the Decker place and in a sharecropper cabin I found the woman chained to a bed with a trace chain locked around her neck. She had been there several days. She had been fed well and other than being chained apparently had not been harmed. I ordered the woman unchained and took her and Wiggin off the farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debt Collection | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Pending arraignment on a charge of peonage. Farmer Decker was last week released on a $1,500 bond. Sharecroppers Davis and Wiggin stayed in a Clarksdale jail voluntarily as material witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debt Collection | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...story Rockefeller Tower. These smooth performers differ from Otis elevators in the use of photo-electric cells instead of the usual electrical contacts for braking and for leveling off at each floor. In en- gineering innovations Westinghouse has kept in stride with Otis by matching Otis' double-decker elevators in Manhattan's Cities Service Building with a system for running two elevators in the same shaft. But Otis' great advantage lies in its maintenance operations, which during Depression reputedly accounted for two-thirds of its total business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: A. B. See to Westinghouse | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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