Word: haven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After winning one of three over the weekend, the varsity baseball team will meet a favored Yale nine in New Haven at 3 p.m. today. Pitching for the Elis will be Bob Davis, who beat the Crimson once last year and who saved a 5-2 Yale victory over Harvard in their only meeting of this season four weeks...
...Bull's-Eye. A new, low-recoil, semi-automatic shotgun that stays on target at rapid fire without riding up was put on sale by New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Secret of the shotgun's accuracy is a recoil chamber that moves less than one-tenth of an inch, thereby softening the kick up to 30%. Price...
McClellan, furious because he had not been shown a committee document, was reminded of something else he was angry about. To McCarthy he said: "You keep talking about 133 Communists that you want to investigate, and I haven't been able to get the name of one of them yet" (although his request had been made ten days earlier...
...railroads, notably the Chicago Great Western and the New Haven, have been in the piggyback business for years. The New Haven has been piggybacking since 1937, now carries more than 50,000 trailers a year and grosses $2,000,000 on the service. But it is only recently that most of the giants have become interested. Last month the Great Northern started a piggyback service between the Twin Cities and Duluth. This month the Lackawanna, the Erie, the Nickel Plate and the Pennsylvania are all launching similar services; the New York Central, the Lehigh Valley, the Union Pacific...
...before piggybacking can cash in on its prospects. The Interstate Commerce Commission will soon hold hearings to decide such basic issues as rates and Government regulation. Another unknown is the final stand to be taken by Dave Beck's Teamsters Union. The Teamsters opposed piggybacking on the New Haven, have been restrained from disrupting it only by a court injunction. But Beck, who has gone along with the shipment of trailers by water, now seems resigned. Says he: "We have no objections to piggybacking or any other form of transportation as long as the interests of the drivers...