Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line track between Kansas City and the Gulf of Mexico, carries coal, oil and farm products mainly originating in other territories. L.& A. owns 573 miles of trackage, 371 of which lie between New Orleans and Hope, Ark., with an affiliate branch running to Dallas, Texas. Most of its freight-quarry products, refined oil and sugar-originates in its own territory. The two roads, pee-wee but prosperous, meet at Shreveport, La. K.C.S. sets its total assets at $138,738,553; L.& A., at $35,514,566. In 1937 K.C.S...
...stately elms crashed. The sea rushed up and over the dunes to lash even at the Maidstone Country Club on its high bluff, obliterating the golf course and 50 prize flower gardens. Rich summer colonists and poor fisher folk suffered alike. Falling trees crushed the Maidstone Hotel. The Bridgehampton freight station was shunted smack across the tracks...
...French police were especially chagrined last week, when, from under their very noses, bandits got away with $1,890,000 in gold, the largest haul in French criminal history. The gold, being shipped to a Belgian smelting plant from the Belgian Congo, was unceremoniously stowed aboard an ordinary freight train northbound from Marseille one night last week. Few miles outside the city, the train's emergency brakes were jammed on. As trainmen and guards swung down to investigate, six masked men whooped out from the trackside, fired shots in the air and forced their way into the gold...
...language radio program "Voice of China" radiated confidence in Chinese arms. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appealed to Chinese Manchukuoans to transform that Japanese-dominated state into a "graveyard for the Japanese." About 4,500 junks, including sailing boats, tug boats and sampans-capable of transporting 80,000 tons freight-manned by 16,000 boatmen earning 30? a day, worked feverishly to complete the evacuation of the three Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang...
When the members of San Francisco's Association of Distributors last month began locking out union warehousemen who refused to handle a "hot" freight car loaded in a struck Woolworth warehouse, they started something. All told, 121 warehouses were closed, 3,000 of Harry Bridges' 8,000 warehousemen were out of work. More important, the Distributors Association had given a demonstration of employer solidarity more convincing than any that turbulent San Francisco had seen since the 1934 General Strike. So bucked up was Roger Dearborn Lapham, board chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. and new chairman...