Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Letters department of TIME for Nov. 9 Mr. George C. Whitney writes of the switchback in the H. T. & W. Railroad as being reputed to be the only one east of the Rocky Mountains...
...Atlantic and Gulf, 151 ships and 16,000 men were idle, according to Strikeleader Joseph Curran. Shipowners and Madam Perkins joined in calling these figures "exaggerated," but produced none of their own. Meanwhile, the three-cornered battle went on apace. Shipowners produced the old Red herring that the East Coast strikers were led by racketeering Communists. Using this as an excuse President John M. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine (which particularly hates Seaman Curran because he began his striking career on an I. M. M. ship last spring) requested New York City's special prosecutor of racketeering, Thomas...
...common way of passing the 15-minute interval between halves at Pacific Coast football classics, the card stunts are a comparative rarity in the East, and Navy boasts the most proficient set of colored card spinners cast of the Mississippi...
...special Pullmans full of muscular young men rolled out of Oakland, Calif, three weeks ago to show the East once more how to play football. But though their pants were the boldest green of the season and their scarlet jerseys were blazoned with brave green harps, the "Galloping Gaels" of St. Mary's College showed the East little this year. They were squeezed out 7-to-6 by Jesuit Fordham fortnight ago, trounced 20-to-6 by Jesuit Marquette last week in Chicago. Meanwhile, back home in Oakland things were going even worse. Representing $819,000 worth of defaulted...
Last week the I. C. C. finally made up its mind. On shipments whose tariff is a minimum 45? per 100 lb. all railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio may provide free store-to-door service, offer the 5? self-delivery discount. Key to the decision-a signal victory for the railroads-was the discovery by the I. C. C. that less-than-carload shipments had risen briskly in the West and Southwest, thus proving that the public wanted the service...