Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Senator Royal S. Copeland, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing who sent a $10 contribution, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. Unanimously the hoboes voted to lobby for benches and cots in railroad boxcars and a special 1?-a-mile hobo rail rate, applauded King Davis when he thumped for enforcement of the 14th Amendment "so that a hobo can go anywhere in this country without being pinched for being broke." Keynoted he: "We're not spittoon philosophers. . . . We got 815,000 American members now. . . . Half have got jobs and are making...
...tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From Duluth and from the gigantic grain elevators of Fort William and Port Arthur, they carried Minnesota and Saskatchewan wheat to Buffalo...
...Cabinet of Professor van Zeeland is supported by a necessarily loose coalition of Catholics, Liberals, Socialists and Communists. It is typical of the setup of Democracy against which dictators rail, scoffing that efficiency is impossible if the head of the state has to spend most of his time conciliating the views of supporters so diverse. Challenged by Degrelle and his Rexist Party, however, the Cabinet parties pulled themselves together, urged Professor van Zeeland, who had never run for an elective office, to do so as a personal challenge to Demagog Degrelle. They assured the Premier he would be elected...
...year-old Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew), too full of chocolate ice cream sodas, slips under the rail of a transatlantic liner's boat deck, bellywhops down into the icy waters of the Newfoundland fishing banks. Awaking in the fo'c'sle of a Gloucester fishing schooner, Harvey discovers he is in a world where the mysterious emollient of wealth fails to lay a calming film on the stern civilization aboard ship, to say nothing of the waters churning overside. Skipper Disko (Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member...
...George Alexander Ball was unexpectedly boosted into the driver's seat of Midamerica Corp. last November following the death of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (TIME, Nov. 30), he interviewed the aging fruit-jar maker about his plans for that corporate key to the $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate empire. And 28-year-old Newshawk Hadley left with an invitation from 74-year-old Mr. Ball to return any time he needed assistance on a story...