Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee on Interstate Commerce since 1919. When, in 1923, his name again appeared on the list of proposed chairmen, Democrats and Progressives in the Senate roared that Cummins was the enemy of the farmer and the worker. He had sponsored the controversial Esch-Cummins law which provided for high railroad freight rates, a law that was oppressive to the small shipper. His opponents charged that Cummins was the ally of the gilded railroaders, and the farmer's foe. They maintained that Cummins' reappointment to the chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission would give him a stranglehold on the farmer. After...
This year's melodrama concerns the efforts of two villans to rest the ownership of the Walker Valley, Pine Bush & Pacific Railroad from a defenseless, aged widow. She, inevitably, has a beautiful daughter who, of course, figures in the dastards' ultimate goal. They do not succeed, however, thanks to the "Courage and Valor in all Things but One" (Drink) of one Truman Pendennis. Not even poor Truman ever seems really doubtful about the happy outcome, and all is well...
...Long Island Investor Alastair Bradley Martin recovered just in time from a virus infection, showed his familiar form -severe cut shots, accurate backhand, unbeatable railroad and sidewall services -at Manhattan's Racquet and Tennis Club to overpower Robert Grant III and win the amateur court tennis championship of the U.S. for the eighth time. Only man to hold the title longer: Financier Jay Gould, champion from...
FREIGHT RATE BOOST will give U.S. railroads another $400 million in revenue annually. After looking at spiraling costs in the railroad industry, the Interstate Commerce Commission has granted U.S. roads a series of "just and reasonable" increases, ranging up to 6% on a wide range of products from coal to lumber; however, most farm products will be held to a 5% increase...
...total claims against MoPac went to court to block the plan, but Judge Moore swept aside their objections as "frivolous." With that, the 9,710-mile Missouri Pacific, sixth longest U.S. rail system, came out of bankruptcy and back into private hands. The first major railroad to go into reorganization under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act, it was the last...