Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Senator William F. Knowland, spread its exclusive pictures across Page One and eight columns inside. The arrested man turned out to be Roy Mac Arthur, 31, a pilot for Transocean Airlines, who has been flying a C-54 between California and Japan on the Korean air-freight run. The pilot, said Braumoeller, had been bringing in from Japan each trip as much as four pounds of uncut heroin, worth $32,000 in the underworld. After MacArthur was charged, his lawyer told Agent Braumoeller: "I don't know what he needs a lawyer for. What...
...taste for selfless public service showed up early. As a young lawyer making his way in Lincoln, Neb., he became counsel for the Lincoln Board of Trade and soon tangled with the railroads over discriminatory freight rates. He never asked for or received a fee in these freight-rate cases. "It is a good, steady job without pay," he wrote philosophically. Described on an 1889 list of eligible bachelors as an "antimonopoly agitator" with the "neatest mustache in Lincoln," Dawes fluttered the hearts of the local belles. But his own heart belonged then, and for the next 62 years...
When the canoe smashed up this year, a Boston and Maine Railroad engineer stopped his freight train to watch the accident. Later, a mill operator came to the drenched members' rescue by giving them the sanctuary of his boiler room in order...
...southbound Milwaukee Railroad freight carrying ammunition rolled into Lewis, Ind. (pop. 416) one night last week, jumped the track and blew up with a force felt for 35 miles. For four hours, 105-and 155-mm. howitzer shells lobbed into Lewis. When the siege ended, nine houses, four barns and two business buildings were destroyed, 54 of the remaining 95 houses were damaged. Only two residents, both over 80, were hurt seriously enough to be hospitalized; no one was killed. When the blast came, almost everyone in Lewis was out of range, at an Eastern Star meeting in Masonic Hall...
...convertible preferred for each share of Slick common, selling around 8. Tiger's President Bob Prescott will run the new company, with Slick President Tom Grace as executive vice president. The two lines, which last year flew a combined total of no million ton-miles (46% of all freight flown in the U.S.), say the merger will make them the world's biggest air-freight carrier, the fifth biggest U.S. airline. By combining their fleets (67 planes), they expect to save as much as $750,000 a year by eliminating duplications in maintenance and other service facilities...