Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cocky, Ruth faced the grandstand and held up one finger. After throwing two balls. Pitcher Root got over another strike. This time the players in the Cubs' dugout peered and chuckled. Still cocky, Ruth held up two fingers. The next pitch broke over the corner of the plate. Ruth swung at it. There was a crack. Centerfielder Johnny Moore started to run; then he stood still and watched the ball, a dwindling white spot against the blue sky, clear the ware fence and drop 436 ft. from the plate, one of the longest homeruns on record. Babe Ruth shambled slowly...
Tarnished Plate. Just half a century ago the first train ran over the rails of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad). The Nickel Plate is now a system of some 1,600 mi. The main part of the road consists of two great arcs, one curving between Buffalo and Chicago, the other between Detroit and St. Louis. An important branch runs to Peoria. Last year it carried 36,551.000 tons of freight, collected $36,551.000 in gross revenue...
...made after a desperate.struggle with the Taplin brothers of Cleveland during which Wheeling shares, virtually cornered, ran up from $27½ to $130. In 1930 the road's credit was still good and it sold $36,000,000 worth of bonds bearing only 4.5%. Last week came the Nickel Plate's crisis. It was unable to meet the interest and maturity of its $20,000.000 notes issued...
...Nickel Plate goes into receivership and is reorganized, a new angle to current railroad problems will arise. Its control of the Wheeling has been pledged to R. F. C. as security on a loan. Calling of this loan would apparently bring about the first Federal ownership of an important railroad...
Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 53, and his two-year-younger brother Mantis James were at home in Cleveland last week, silent as to what they thought of the Nickel Plate's situation. Quiet, busy bachelors who live together in the fashionable Shaker Heights district which they built up, the "Vans" have always been shy of publicity. But many a success writer has written of their rise from newspaper selling with pooled assets of $16.32 to a position where they control 29,704 miles of track with Cleveland's new Union Terminal as their monument. The Depression has brought a severe...