Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscience. In Mobile, Ala., the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad received a money order for $3 from a Michigan man who "wanted to pay for some rocks which I took from your right-of-way 35 years ago for my slingshot...
These are wheat dunes, not sand dunes, piled outside the local grain elevator at Hitchland, Tex. All through the Southwest last week a shortage of railroad cars and bin space forced farmers to pile their bumper crop of wheat in wind-drifted heaps. Labor was also short. Hardest hit were the small elevators that lack mechanical unloading devices-few men want the backbreaking job of scooping wheat from the cars. Result: at Kansas City, 4,800 loaded cars were stalled in the yards, while anxious farmers feared that their wheat would spoil if heavy rains came...
...many a community P.A.C. has received help from the A.F. of L.-although Bill Green sneers at P.A.C.-and the Railroad Brotherhoods. Last week P.A.C. further broadened its scope by setting up a National Citizens Political Action Committee, studded with the names of radicals, movie stars, authors and liberals of all shades that ranged from George Norris to Paul Robeson.* Partly the reason for this was to get around the Smith-Connally Act by having the new committee collect and disburse contributions. Partly the reason was that shrewd Sidney Hillman, looking ahead, wants to get a broader base...
...member of the ICC ever asked Mr. Clement why the Pennsylvania Railroad let Kuhn, Loeb & Co. underwrite a Pennsylvania Railroad bond issue. To an insinuation by an attorney for Halsey, Stuart & Co. that the Pennsylvania R.R. was dominated by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Mr. Clement replied that he, and of course speaking for the Pennsylvania Railroad, dealt with whom they pleased...
Tracked. In Washington, the Treasury Department told how it caught up with David Fixman, a former railroad employe who obtained $843,000 worth of orders for nonexistent nylon hose; he was turned in by a prospective woman buyer who had no use for railroad...