Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goodyear, he says, he actually landed a blimp by means of a harpoon-anchor like the one which he depicts in his cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross invention, not in production, is a combination ashtray & pipe-bowl cleaner which operates like the orange-juice extractors used by soda fountains. Mr. Gross's father was an inventor. His son. 6, and daughter, 11, invent things like bedside...
Yesterday morning the jury of the Scottsboro case broke a ten-hour dead-lock to return a verdict of guilty against Haywood Patterson, a negro accused of attacking, in company with eight others, two white girls bumming their way South on a freight train. This is the second time that Patterson has been handed a death sentence for the alleged crime, a new trial having been ordered by the Supreme Court last November. It is not impossible that a third trial will be held, if the defense's appeal is successful. It is, however, doubtful if the verdict will...
Price, accused nine young Negroes of raping them as they hoboed their way in a freight gondola through Jackson County, Ala. Eight of the Negroes were condemned to death at Scottsboro, county seat, ten days later. The ninth, aged 13, was turned over to a juvenile court, as was subsequently one of the condemned, aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy...
...more intoxicating than ginger ale, yet the Federal Government stands pledged to protect from importations any State that assumes otherwise. A brewer in a Wet State may start to ship his product through a Dry State to another Wet State, only to have the Dry State confiscate his freight as intoxicating and call upon the Federal Government to prosecute him. But the brewer could also appeal to the LT. S. on the ground that he was engaged in legitimate interstate commerce with a non-intoxicating beverage, that it was the Federal Government's job to prevent State interference, even...
...brush, starts in one corner of a large canvas "without the slightest idea what is going to happen." In her studio for the last few weeks have gathered regularly her husband's henchmen to talk strategy for his campaign to regain control of Bush Terminal Co., the vast freight-handling and industrial development which Irving Bush spent 30 years building along the South Brooklyn waterfront...