Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1912 Arizona has had a law prohibiting freight trains of more than 70 cars from passing through the State. Thus the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, as their long strings of refrigerator cars approached the Arizona border, had to split them up to cross the State. In 1929 the two roads estimated that the law was costing them $1,000,000 per year, started court action to have its enforcement restrained. In due time a U. S. District Court gave ear to their plea, finding the law useless except as a "make-work" measure and interfering...
...wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon (Charles Bickford), tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses...
...there with your clients, you ?" Peering from a courthouse window, watching the motorcycle-escorted cars start on their dash for the Tennessee State line, was the rouged face of a white female named Victoria Price, 22, whose insistent tale of a nine-Negro rape in an Alabama freight car in March 1931 had made the Scottsboro Case an enduring stink in the annals of Alabama law (TIME, April...
...little company in search of fresh capital is Youngstown Steel Car Corp., which offered 55,000 shares of common stock last week through a banking group headed by Cleveland's L. J. Schultz & Co. The company's business used to consist largely of repairing and rebuilding freight cars, but since Depression has branched into trailers, truck frames, refrigerator car hatches, parts for hydraulic lifts, and a neat little sideline in old rail joint angle bars, which the company retreats and reforges until they are as good as new. Run by Youngstown's William Wilkoff...
...worms are dropped in buckets of fresh salt water and kept swimming to prevent them from killing each other off before shipment. They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care of the breakage." Specially cooled freight cars take three tons of worms into Manhattan every week. Though all other Maine worm dealers quit from October to April, smart Kenneth Stoddard works the year round, hopes "some day to organize the whole business from here to wherever worms are found on the Atlantic Coast...