Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest change has come in the town's leadership. Merchants, bankers, railroad managers and hundreds of citizens who once would never think of messing in the town's dirty politics are now the backbone of the reform. Says Roberts: "Pendergast had civic leadership constricted. He even controlled the Chamber of Commerce. Good and able citizens took no part in the city's affairs. If they bucked the machine, they were liable to personal harm. When the machine broke down, we had a flood of new blood. Where there were a few civic leaders a few years...
...approximately $10 in cash on him at the time of his arrest. The railroad ticket, obtained from Louis Gerstley '45, a special student in psychology, McGowan tore up in the face of the police...
...hard luck story, told too glibly to suspicious undergraduates, brought hard luck--in the form of a night in jail--to a middle aged man last night. He was held on charges of trespassing and drunkenness by Cambridge police after taking $10 and a railroad ticket to New York from several Dunster House residents...
Getting to Market. Development of Itabira has been handicapped by bad management, waste, nepotism and political featherbedding. Moreover, once the ore is dug, it is not easy to get to market. The railroad's locomotives are woodburning, its cars antiquated. Vitoria's port facilities are so poor that it takes 30 hours to load an ore ship; modern machinery could do it in 30 minutes...
...million for Itabira. Last week, after a year of heated negotiations, the finishing touches were being put to a new $7,500,000 Export-Import Bank loan. That meant electric shovels, compressed-air drills and crushing plants for the Iron Mountain. It also meant further improvements on the railroad, new facilities at the port. With all that done, say in two years, Itabira hoped to reach its immediate target: a yearly output of 1,500,000 tons...