Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets. These were trimmed off by a furnaceman with...
...hands of Argentine farmers in their pews. Sweat wilted the collar of the priest in the sanctuary. In an Indian summer hot beyond measure, the villagers of San Luis were trying to worship God. Father Juan Guerrera blessed the bread and wine. The villagers trailed forward to the altar rail to receive the Communion...
Washington, March 22--Complete re-organization of the nation's facilities for handling freight in less than carload lots, with rail and truck transportation co-ordinated, is proposed in a report made public tonight by Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-ordinator of transportation...
...time, topped the corresponding week of 1932. Electric power output was 16.5% above 1933-largest weekly gain since the rise began last May. The total of 1,658-040,000 k.w.h. was second highest since the New Deal and equal to 1931. Steel operations continued to expand with new rail orders supplementing the heavy demand from can-makers and the automobile industry. Iron Age estimated operations at 49% of capacity-highest since last August. Production of 4,200,000 tons in the first two months of the year was precisely 100% above the figure for the same period...
Forty-eight hours after Albert H. Wiggin admitted to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last autumn that he was receiving $100,000 per year "retirement pay" from Chase National Bank, President Roosevelt announced he had begun studying legislation to control high salaries by taxation. He had already approved Federal Rail Coordinator Eastman's "suggestion" that railroad presidents fix their income at $60,000 or less. Then, on orders from the Senate, the Federal Trade Commission sent a questionnaire to some 2,000 corporations whose stock is listed on the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. Resultant information: executive salaries...