Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Douglas talked, Oilman Kerr chuffed worriedly about the Senate floor like a yard engine rounding up a string of freight cars, whispering counterarguments and buttonholing members. When the time came for a vote, Kerr had collected his string of cars: 28 Democrats and 16 Republicans. Douglas mustered 16 Democrats and 22 Republicans and it was not enough...
...three Kennecott Copper Corp. executives and 20 others (TIME, Sept. 19), investigators turned up shocking evidence. The crash was no accident; it was planned murder. To get rid of his wife, who was aboard the plane, a jeweler named Albert Guay had planted a dynamite bomb in the freight compartment. Last week a trial jury took just 14 minutes to find Guay guilty. The sentence: death by hanging...
...exchange in every corner of the world. (So valued are they, in fact, that last year a ring started to counterfeit $1,000,000 of them-and was nabbed.) As the demand for travelers' cheques grew, American. Express had to expand its services abroad (it sold its domestic freight business to Railway Express...
...Keep Moving." Standout attraction of the fair was the Russian exhibit. The biggest building of all, it was surmounted by a gilded Byzantine tower topped by a giant red star. Russian music boomed through the hall as the East Germans gaped at the huge display: freight cars, trucks, tractors, radios, precision instruments. One teen-ager caressed the leather seat of a custom-built convertible sedan, murmured ecstatically, "Wunderbar!" A man with a red armband came up behind him. "Keep moving," he snapped, "everybody must have a look...
...largest U.S. domestic airline, are a patient lot. For the last three years their company has been in the red, has paid dividends only six times in 16 years. Last week the stockholders finally got some good news. In 1949, thanks to higher mail pay, a 42% gain in freight traffic and a 15% rise in passenger traffic, American had netted the biggest profit in its history -$6.5 million (v. a 1948 loss of $2.8 million). That was equal to 79? a share...