Word: rail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curtain went up on Casey Jones. There, covering the whole stage and appearing to race through the night, stretched a life-sized, glinting locomotive. The audience let loose a tornado of applause. But the rest of Casey Jones, instead of roaring straight ahead, backed in and out of rail road yards, got shunted off on sidings...
...Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that northwest lumber exports as a whole were off by half. Total burl production, including those going to domestic veneer manufacturers and those sent to New York by rail before being shipped to Europe, was 1,500 tons...
...October the President appointed his son, James Roosevelt, to act as (1 contact man between himself and the heads of the Administrative agencies, 2 radio commissioner for Texas, 3 special investigator to prove that big business caused the stock market break, 4 special mediator in Labor disputes involving the rail industry, 5 U. S. Ambassador-at-Large...
...good definition of a cartel is "an agreement, usually in writing, among manufacturers, which regulates production and prices." Before the World War it has been estimated that there were some 114 international cartels. One of the first and most successful was the International Rail Makers' Association which appeared in 1884. The European Steel Cartel has been turbulent but relatively successful. It was formed in 1926 by Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Saar to overcome through production quotas the disastrous effects of post-War overproduction. In the past dozen years it has been abandoned and revived, depending...
Bitter cold, plus driving snow & sleet. literally froze military gains stiff in north and central China. In the sunny south, where Japanese troops are not yet operating on a large scale, Japanese pilots busied themselves systematically bombing Canton's rail approaches from both Hankow and Hong Kong. One day this week they bombed in relays for nine solid hours, the heaviest air-strafing yet seen in Japan's war in China...