Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million in alleged overcharges. His claim: they sold Middle East oil to ECA at $1.75 a barrel overseas, when they were billing their own sales to the U.S. at $1.43. According to FTC's report, this was done under a complex "basing point" price system which added "phantom freight" to the price of the oil. Thus, a Middle East buyer, next door to the producing wells, had to pay as if the Middle East Oil had been hauled from...
Died. Haywood Patterson, 39, one of the nine famed "Scottsboro Boys," who were convicted, after one of the most sensational trials of the century, of raping two white women in a freight car; of cancer; in Southern Michigan Prison, where he was serving a 6-to-15-year term for manslaughter. Sentenced (in 1937) to 75 years in jail for his part in the Scottsboro case, Patterson escaped from an Alabama prison, fought off extradition attempts, but was sent to jail again in 1950 for stabbing a man in a barroom brawl...
...lemon grove. They wished it had been oranges-which were the promissory golden fruit that had helped attract Dick's maternal grandfather, Quaker Franklin Milhous, to California from his home in Butlerville, Ind. In 1897 he had loaded lumber, doors, windows, cows and horses on a freight car and set out for the promised land. At a Quaker church party, his daughter Hannah met Francis Anthony Nixon, who had also come out from the Middle West. She married him two years later. Their second son, Dick, worked in the lemon grove as a youngster, chopping weeds and caring...
Strikers & Killers. Out of the Alps last week into the old town of Bern, fluttering with flags for the occasion, poured some 5,500 Hornussers with their wives, children and 21 freight-car loads of playing equipment. For the Hornuss Federation's "World Series," the Swiss army cleared an auxiliary airfield in the suburbs, then parceled it into 67 playing fields, each about 350 yards long and 50 yards wide. Part of the airfield became an amusement park full of merry-go-rounds, beer and milk bars, and brassy rural bands...
...Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's freight yards near Chicago last week, a yard clerk walked over to an incoming train for the routine job of writing down the serial number of each freight car. When he turned in the numbers to the assistant superintendent, he was told: "I know them already. I watched the cars come in on television...