Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside, a big man-about-Florida. Whiteside. as a pompous, disputatious witness last week, admitted that he had been on National Airlines' side and had talked to Mack about the bitterly fought case. ¶In 1953 Whiteside gave Mack, then a member of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a one-sixth interest in an insurance agency. Later, under the firm name Stembler-Shelden, it sold an insurance policy (premium: $20,000) to the National Airlines' TV subsidiary. There were no written records of Mack's interest in the agency, said Whiteside...
...Before his term in Washington, Richie Mack had kicked around Florida all his life, working as an insurance salesman and a credit manager, was secretary and general manager of the Port Everglades Rock Co. at Fort Lauderdale in 1947 when then Governor Millard Caldwell appointed him to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post by both Senator...
Having given Mack his say, the subcommittee began boring in. What had he ever done to justify his share in the Stembler-Shelden Insurance Agency? Well, as a member of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission he had given the company a commission list of bus and truck carriers that might be interested in buying insurance. Did Mack not think it was at least indiscreet to accept an interest in Stembler-Shelden while a member of the Florida commission? The remarkable reply: "Well, I do not know. If Mr. Whiteside had given me $20,000 on which he paid...
...many of South Korea's poor, stealing from the U.S. Army is a trade and a livelihood. They steal from PXs and officers' homes, raid railroad yards, pilfer from trucks on the move, and diligently bleed oil pipelines (last year's losses were 1,500,000 gallons, enough to carry one tank company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling...
...turn D'el Key into a major ore supplier for the U.S. and Europe; D'el Key will be almost as big as Hanna's Labrador project, which shipped about 12.5 million tons last year. It plans to spend something like $300 million for equipment, a railroad and a port to get the ore to market. In winter, Hanna's fleet of 40,000-ton ore carriers will shift southward from ice-locked Labrador to Brazil, cut around the world carrying 10 million tons of ore annually to U.S. and European customers. Nor will the ships...