Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Senator Wheeler grumbled because Broker Young had not ousted leftovers from the Van Sweringen regime and complained that U. S. railroads are controlled by men who lack practical experience, the net summation of a week's rail-road investigation was the chairman's sharp comment on the campaign books. Said he: ". . . I resent the Democratic Committee going to people just prior to their coming here, and soliciting funds. . . . It might give the impression that people had to give money to get proper treatment...
...glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail or the edge of a chromium table to peek at the new models...
Roughneck, big-hearted Samuel Zemurray, Managing Director of United Fruit Co. (bananas, ships, wireless, rail-roads), gave $380,000 worth of his company's' stock to found a child guidance clinic in New Orleans, where he made his fortune in bananas, fostered Central American revolutions and still lives. All told, he has given New Orleans' Tulane University approximately $1,000,000 to found a department of Middle American research...
...banking group headed by Cleveland's L. J. Schultz & Co. The company's business used to consist largely of repairing and rebuilding freight cars, but since Depression has branched into trailers, truck frames, refrigerator car hatches, parts for hydraulic lifts, and a neat little sideline in old rail joint angle bars, which the company retreats and reforges until they are as good as new. Run by Youngstown's William Wilkoff, one of the founders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, the company has about $1,300,000 in assets, needs cash to pay off some notes and to increase...
...prevent supplies entering the plants by rail, strikers put ties on the tracks, threatened the train crews until they retired "in fear of bodily injury." This brought the railroads into the picture: Pennsylvania, B & O and Erie. They appealed to the courts for an injunction to prevent strikers from blocking their tracks. S.W.O.C. counsel replied that the railroads were not acting on their own behalf but merely as a catspaw for the steel companies...