Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swiftly after the War, U. S. railroads began to lose their 50-year-old transportation monopoly. To oil and gasoline pipe lines, trucks and government-subsidized barge lines, went their freight. To buses, airplanes and private cars went their passengers. Traditionally as reactionary as bankers, railmen were slow to reach for their thinking caps to cope with this new situation. An additional obstacle to concerted, thoughtful action was the industry's diversity of interests, there being almost as many railroads in the country as newspapers. In the fourth year of Depression, last week Pennsylvania R. R. introduced an elastic...
Thus for the third time in three years did an Alabama jury last week decide the fate of 20-year-old Negro Heywood Patterson. Accused with eight other Negroes of raping two white girls in a freight car near Scottsboro, he had twice been saved from the electric chair by judicial appeal. The first conviction was set aside by the U. S. Supreme Court last year and a new trial ordered (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). The second was voided by the judge at the second trial who claimed the verdict was unwarranted by the evidence. This time at Decatur Patterson...
...commercial enterprise, the King Ranch is big and profitable. Every year it sells some $900,000 worth of cattle. De ducting operating expenses of $300,000, freight bills and grazing charges of $200,000, and taxes of $100,000, this leaves an operating profit of $300,000. But the tale is by no means told merely in terms of cattle. There is oil in Texas, and a lot of it. And it seems as certain as anything can be in prospecting business that somewhere beneath the ranch's 1,250,000 acres lies oil. For years one company...
...center of the strike belt is situated in small areas in lower Iowa, especially around Sioux City, where the trains--mostly freight trains. In general the government has solved the situation, but the solution is only temporary, and conditions will probably be worse when a year...
...nearly a year Germany's Luft Hansa air lines have been experimenting with a converted freight steamer, the S. S. Westphalen, as a mid-ocean station for airplanes (TIME, May 15). Last week a flying boat crossed from Africa to Brazil, via the Westphalen, in the latter's first dress rehearsal...