Word: railed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor-laden craft some 35 miles off the Florida east coast when overhauled by Coast Guard Cutter No. 249. "King" Alderman, a begrizzled, bespectacled salt of 48, was removed to the cutter. Suddenly he whipped out a hidden revolver, became captor instead of captive, lined the crew along the rail. He debated three plans: 1) to make the guardsmen walk the plank; 2) to fire his own boat and set them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard. With himself he debated too long, for the guardsmen rushed him while he pondered. His gun cracked...
...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
...Stocks. Rail stocks which started up the O'Fallon decision (TIME, May 27). remained strong. Yet not many were selling at 15 times earnings. The following table shows last week's closing on ten rails and the figure those rails would have closed at had they reached the 15 times earnings mark...
Porter Plan. Eastern roads are looking forward to the fall announcement of a rail consolidation plan prepared by Claude R. Porter of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Details of this plan have not been made public, but almost any definite program would be preferable to the present uncertainty as to the I. C. C.'s position on almost every rail project...
Improvement in railway net operating income has generally resulted not so much from increases in gross income as from decreases in operating costs. Railroads are being more efficiently run, and by more capable managers. Nor is there any more typical example of the modern rail executive than Southern Pacific's Paul Shoup, man most responsible for Southern Pacific's present scope and vigor...