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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third big railroad wreck within a fortnight occurred last week two miles out of Binghamton, N. Y. on the Erie's main line. Week prior the Southern's Crescent Limited had lurched off a water-logged bridge into a raging river while entering Washington over the Pennsylvania's tracks, had killed two, injured 13. Five days later the Southern Pacific-Rock Island Golden State Limited had met with an almost identical disaster on the Southern Pacific's tracks near Tucumcari, N. M., had killed eight, injured 40 (TIME, Sept. 4 ). Both wrecks were due to sudden...
Last week a notable meeting of stock-holders was held in a gymnasium. The gymnasium (no longer used on account of Depression) is on the second floor of Armour & Co.'s main building in the Chicago stockyards, faces on one side the packing firm's general offices, on the other a cowpen. The meeters were Armour & Co.'s stockholders. President of Armour & Co. is T. G. Lee. Thirty-eight years ago as Thomas G. Lee he became a stenographer in Armour & Co.'s beef department under the late F. Edson White. Through the ranks he rose...
...individual man, woman or child has a right to do things that hurt their neighbors. . . . In the old days it was unfair to our neighbors to allow our cattle to roam on their land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody hire their children when they were little bits of things...
...forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast Guard destroyer Upshur which oiled the tossing water, convoyed the steamer at 1½knots into Norfolk 24 hours late. Debarking passengers sent up a great cheer for Captain Heath's steady seamanship...
...descendant of Hambletonian 10 win. This year, while William Reynolds' bay filly Mary Reynolds was winning several preliminary races on the Grand Circuit, a publicity agent was high-pressuring newspaper interest in trotting racing. Last week 30,000 trotting fans crowded Goshen's green valley, its dusty Main Street. Eastern newspapers sent their crack sports writers to cover it. A trotting horse is trained not to break into a gallop. Pulling the little low-hung sulky with the driver perched nearly under his tail, he must not stretch out to pull himself along, must drive his legs rhythmically...