Word: rail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty of peace had given California to the U. S., came news of a great gold strike there. In Paris the last of the Bourbons signed his abdication, and the gale of revolution that swept Europe ended the age of Metternich. The first carload of grain came by rail into Chicago...
...much Trotskyist deviltry had been confessed to before the Supreme Court that a map of the Soviet Union last week was a map of assassinations, rail wrecks, mine explosions, sabotage and conspiracy by Old Bolsheviks (see map), plus everywhere the spirit of Leon Trotsky, exiled from Russia in 1929 but still the rival in Communist hearts of Joseph Stalin. According to the State Public Prosecutor's charges and the confessions of all 17 prisoners, they had conspired with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia...
Instead of having more than $6,000,000,000 with which to run the U. S. rail system, railroad managements in the lean years had about $3,000.000,000. In 1932 not one steam-locomotive was bought, in 1933 just six passenger cars. Dividends virtually disappeared. Nearly 25% of all railroad bonds went into default. Seventy thousand miles of line, nearly one-third of the total, went into the hands of the courts and 600,000 railroad workers lost their jobs. The biggest single customer of heavy industry disappeared from the market and the Government had to pass out more...
...siding two years ago. By the beginning of last year it had clacked on to the main line and was chuffing up the hump of recovery. Last week, as 1936 came to an accounting close, dispatches of good news were coming in from all over the nation's rail system and the roar and smoke of recovery filled...
...defendants were accused, in the opening speech delivered by Chief Assistant Herlands, of having operated a Manhattan restaurant racket along strictly conventional lines. Their Association charged a $250 initiation fee, $5 per month dues. Its terrorized members-in-cluding such famed restaurants as The Hollywood, Lindy's, Brass Rail, St. Regis and Jack Dempsey's-were additionally shaken down for whatever they were worth. One chain paid $17,000. Jack Dempsey got off with $285, possibly because he gave the Association prestige by posing before newscameras with two of its operators. Profits from the racket were...