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Behind this new kind of sharing was the Industrial Revolution, which developed in 18th century England and spread over Europe and the New World. Power-driven technology and mass production meant large-scale imports and exports - goods carried everywhere in steam-driven freighters, in railroad freight cars, on transcontinental railway systems...
...steel mills are still operating at only 72% of capacity, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, one of the companies announcing an increase, claimed that flat-rolled products are selling especially well. National Steel, which led the increase, added that the boost would "only partially" recoup rising costs for materials, labor and freight. Significantly, Armco, the company that torpedoed the October rise, joined this...
...folded away after a day's shooting. At the end of the street is the crowning bit of make-believe, the period-piece depot that does not deal with trains at all but is Carter's headquarters, festooned with peanut wreaths and campaign paraphernalia. On the freight platform is the rocking chair where Miss Lillian, Carter's already legendary mother, gives her thousandth interview...
Another famous verdict of the 1930s was reversed-and officially so-when Alabama Governor George Wallace signed a full pardon for Clarence Norris, 64, believed to be the last survivor of the "Scottsboro Boys." Norris was 19 when he and eight other black youths were hauled off a freight train, prosecuted for raping two white women and quickly sentenced to death. It was a verdict that aroused worldwide protest and involved years of appeals. After five years on death row, Norris was reprieved, served another ten years in prison, won a parole, then fled to New York, where...
TOWBOAT JESSE. When Jesse Brent launched his career on the Mississippi in the late 1930s, riverboats accounted for just 2.5% of America's interstate freight. Now they carry 16%. Brent, a short, wiry man of 64, foresaw the boom and cashed in on it. His net worth stands at some $10 million -enough, he says, to buy "all the whisky and steaks I want," with plenty left over for philanthropy in his home town of Greenville, Miss. The wealth comes mainly from Brent Towing Co., whose 48 barges and 13 towboats make it one of the largest privately owned...