Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cooper Union fame, and a group of Baltimore businessmen organized Canton Co., purchased Canton-a strip of land along the Baltimore water front for $105,000. It was thought at that time that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor...
...Blind baggage" is unpaid-for railway travel, usually under freight cars. Members of the brotherhood must pay no railway fare during the first year of their membership, must have no regular abode, must work with their hands (no "white collar" jobs...
...Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present title of International Railways of Central America, acquired a road running from Guatemala City to the Pacific, thus gave Guatemala, a coast-to-coast railway...
...Schroder Banking Corp. of Manhattan became financial sponsor. The directorate is now exclusively Manhattan. Though independent, I. R. C. A. nevertheless maintains close relations with United Fruit. Minor Keith is its board chairman. And the two companies have a 33⅓% discount agreement by which United Fruit passengers and freight travel on the I. R. C. A. at two-thirds the ordinary cost and I. R. C. A. passengers and freight use United Fruit ships on the same basis...
...North Bergen, N. J., Arthur Lambert, laborer, disowned his daughter Myrtle who insisted on riding freight trains, once going as far as Baltimore. Said he: "I have knocked her cold several times, but I can't knock this foolishness...