Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven hundred New York City veterans, the Red half of whom were scrupulously shunned by the nonradical element, ferried to New Jersey where the Central Railroad of New Jersey provided free rides to a freight yard seven miles from the Jersey City Terminal...
...hundred Cleveland Police man-handled members of a mob of 900 marchers who had clogged the Pennsylvania Railroad's yards for 24 hours trying to board freight trains...
...Aberdeen, Md. a B. & O. engine was cut loose from a string of freight cars when 400 veterans clambered into empty coal gondolas...
First important set-back of the pilgrimage occurred when the veterans stepped off the Free Bridge in East St. Louis, Ill., and started to climb on an eastbound Baltimore & Ohio freight train. B. & O. officials, apprehensive lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable...
Seething with guerrilla warfare, Manchuria became Banditland in earnest last week. Civilian passenger and freight traffic was suspended on the Chinese Eastern, vital link in the railways that connect China with Europe. Among refugees pouring into Harbin, chief city on the Chinese Eastern, was Herr Kapitan Roland Strunk, grizzled veteran of the Imperial German Army...