Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baltimore & Ohio (whose motor bus service for passengers from Manhattan to its Jersey terminals has raised a national railroad issue: the right of a railroad to provide such service. The I. C. C., which has already ruled against such service in freight traffic, is studying its legality in passenger traffic...
Ominous developments: 1) the St. Gandhi boycott against British goods reached such proportions that the Japanese Government railways cut freight and railway rates to speed goods from Japanese factories to boats destined for India, so that Japan may get all possible business while the getting is good; 2) His Majesty's Viceroy, Baron Irwin, accepted the "protest resignation" of the Speaker of the Indian assembly; 3) the Bombay stock exchange and other business houses closed for a day "in protest" when St. Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into...
...even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars out along its lakefront line to serve as a snow fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded man was blown to death under a bus before the Drake Hotel...
Meanwhile steel production and freight car loadings-two vital indices of industrial activity-continued to decline. Orders from railroads, which had been keeping up steel production, were declining and the automobile business showed no sign of any throbbing life. The market closed the week in a "recession" brought about by unfavorable estimates, particularly from Western Union, of first quarter earnings...
...Springfield gathered disgruntled delegates from eleven of the 20 U. M. W. districts. They came in third-hand automobiles, on freight-car rods, by hitchhiking. Theirs was a vindictive mood. Leaders who had summoned them?John H. Walker, Illinois Federation of Labor president; Harry Fishwick, president of Illinois U. M. W.; Frank Farrington, past president of Illinois U. M. W.; Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas U. M. W. ?they treated with rowdy distrust. Suspicious of "steam roller" methods, they insisted that the most trivial proceedings be openly transacted on the floor before them. A tremendous uproar occurred when...