Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brookhart has been stumping Iowa telling it just that, saying that Wall Street put him out of his seat, saying that Wall Street defeated the Haugen farm relief bill, saying that Wall Street put over the Esch-Cummins railway bill and the farmers are paying (through freight rates) the dividends on watered stock, saying that the farmers are enriching Wall Street because they have to buy under the protective tariff, saying Wall Street and the Administration are hand in glove, and mentioning incidentally that he voted against World Court adherence...
...vote of 69 to 13. The opponents of the bill never mustered more than 14 votes. The opposition was small but stiff. Senator Curtis offered an amendment which would have allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to reverse any wage settlement if it was likely to cause an increase of freight rates contrary to the public interest. He brought together only 12 votes for his proposal. For five days this little band of ill-assorted comrades in arms stuck together -Republican leader and Democratic leader against the majority of their parties. Underwood, the Conservative Democrat, and Reed (Mo.), the apotheosis...
...Newark, N. J., one night last week, a freight train thundered along the Pennsylvania tracks. As it passed Haynes Avenue, Brakeman J. Leroy Cullen of Bloomfield, N. J., missed his hold, dropped under the grinding trucks, was carried to a hospital, where surgeon amputated both legs. Next morning four relatives entered his room and a clear tenor voice was raised, singing "Mother Machree." After the last note there was a hush. Cullen's relatives filed out, lips quivering, grief-stricken. Wondering hospital attendants learned that the deceased, trained in a choir, often sang to his family of an evening...
Wilkins. Safely returned to Fairbanks after their fourth hop over the 560 miles of desolate northern Alaska between Fairbanks and their advanced base, Point Barrow, Captain George H. Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson took on a load of freight heavier than ever-4,200 Ib. of fuel and food-and soared northward again. This time their radio was silent for hours that stretched into two days. The men in Fairbanks hoped it was only a wrist Wilkins had sprained during the second round-trip that was preventing him from operating the monoplane Alaskan's wireless outfit...
Byrd. Tom, Dick and Harry shook hands in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tom and Harry went back to their respective jobs (Harry is Governor of Virginia), and their brother Dick went ahead with his ? getting men and freight shaken down, stowed and shipshape aboard the S.S. Chantier as she steamed from the pier. The freight was particularly troublesome, and the ship paused overnight off Staten Island before heading across the ocean for Tromso, Norway, where Dick ? Commander Richard E. Byrd ? will lay in whatever supplies or equipment he still needs for his flights next month...