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...place: Manhattan's U. S. Assay Office. The strikers: A. F. of L. armored-car guards, who wanted to ride (at union pay) with U. S. Coast Guardsmen stationed on trucks hauling silver bullion to West Point, N.Y. (TIME, July 11). The winner: Contractor Peter James Malley Jr., who continued to haul U. S. silver under U. S. gun & guard...
...transport crashes have ever left so many live witnesses. But this did not solve the mystery. Had a cable parted? Had the tail structure failed again? Had some treacherous atmospheric lasso twisted up from the gullied Montana slopes to haul Flight Four to earth? To these and other questions, Inspector Niemeyer was at week's end seeking the answers...
...ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was needed, and last week Mrs. Ross awarded her contract to Peter James Malley Jr., 38, of Manhattan, son and grandson of Irish truckers, who bid her 15? per bar for the 50-mile haul. Mr. Malley hauls most of New York City's whiskey, also dyes and chemicals. He figures that with 25 trucks, driven by 25 of his men who have never had an accident, loading 350 bars on each truck and making one trip per day, he can complete...
This big silver haul is the Malley firm's first Government job. Peter James started in the family business 22 years ago, has taken only one vacation since-his two weeks' honeymoon in 1935. He smokes two packages of cigarets a day, but keeps fit by swimming, golf, handball and horseback riding. Once he rode a jumper in a Madison Square Garden horse show...
What made this mile-a-minute pace fairly easy was a 15% increase in locomotive efficiency and 15 to 30% reductions in train weight. Head end of the Century on its steam haul was a 96-foot, futuristically jacketed Hudson-type engine. Pulling the Broadway over its more rugged mileage was a Pacific-type locomotive, sheathed like the Century's, just as efficiently geared...