Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went Joseph P. Ryan, big, hard-boiled president of I. L. A. He permitted a temporary lifting of the embargo on Alaskan shipping out of Seattle because of a threatened food short age. But no truce was extended to the Grace Line, to Luckenbach, Dollar or Pan ama Pacific. Freight had to be carried by rail from San Francisco to Seattle and Portland. The Japanese-owned N. Y. K. Line, with Japanese crews, was permitted to navigate at will, but striking longshore men would not touch its cargoes. Least affected city was Los Angeles, which consequently enjoyed an unprecedented ship...
...Baptist Church of Fort Worth to watch Pastor J. Frank Norris baptize Jack Dempsey Floyd, 9-year-old son of Outlaw Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd. Said Jack Dempsey Floyd: "I want to be a preacher or a lawyer when I grow up." In St. Louis, detectives pulled from a freight car a young man who said he was Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin Joe. Detectives: "Where is John?" Cousin Joe: "Haven't seen him for a year." In Indianapolis three men held up Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin, Howard, collected $5. When the drought in England became...
...Croydon, England, a befogged French freight plane struck a wireless mast, skimmed housetops, wrecked two garages, killed the pilot and mechanic...
That finished the public half of the President's travels. The private half began when he entrained with wife, mother, daughter and eldest son to awake next morning parked on a freight siding at Worcester, Mass. The next two days the President & party spent at Groton, his old school 25 miles away, with a return to Worcester and the special train for the night. At the school gates, by order of Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, rector and headmaster, the President's entourage of newshawks and all his bodyguard save two Secret Service men were promptly locked...
...they had all gone to a bull fight in honor of the contestants in the "Miss Spain" beauty contest. The Speaker telephoned the bull ring to ask when the party would be over. Late that night the Deputies straggled into the Cortes, rapidly voted a 15% increase in freight rates, annulled an old law forbidding farm workers to leave their home districts...