Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They approached it amidst no new sensational disclosures. Instead, the trial in a Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department...
...Long Island Rail Road last year carried more passengers (109 million) than any other road in the U.S., yet it went bankrupt three months ago. Why? Thousands of commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan every day on its crowded, squalid, undependable trains have long thought that they had the answer to that question: they thought that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island, drove its subsidiary on the rocks by overcharging it for services rendered and underpaying it for services received...
...Brooklyn waterfront. Fees paid for use of this track by the N.Y. Connecting Railroad (jointly owned by Pennsylvania and the New Haven) totaled $300,000 last year, less than half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight yard near Manhattan, but leases it to the Pennsy, which pays it a piddling $13,000 a year. This forces the subsidiary to deadhead its own cars to less accessible yards, at a cost last year of about...
...Window. Bobby Driscoll in a hair-raising chase through Manhattan slums (TIME...
...Citing research by Manhattan's Dr. Morton Biskind, Medical Columnist Albert Deutsch contends that certain cattle diseases, as well as Virus X among humans, may be traceable...