Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Arthur W. Mitchell of Chicago, only Negro member of Congress, last week lost his case before ICC against Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway for kicking him out of a Pullman seat when one of its trains entered Arkansas, making him ride in a Jim Crow day coach (TIME, May 24, 1937). ICC ruled that demand for Pullman accommodations by Negroes is so small it would be unfair to ask railroads to Supply separate Pullmans so as to comply with local Jim Crow laws...
Less intricate to anybody but a bookkeeper was the thorough house-cleaning he gave the company. His first move was to let his employes ride with him in the elevator; his predecessor, Charles B. Seger, had risen to his office in solitary splendor. Mr. Davis told his men to work from nine to five, as he did. He toured the company's antiquated plants and gasped: "They're making tires like they made the pyramids!" He installed assembly line methods, introduced the "merry-go-round" (semicircular tire-building track), eliminated the "one man, one boot" system...
Between conferences, calls and bouts with his two dictaphones, he gets an hour's ride or walk, bolts tea and sandwiches from a solid silver plate, naps...
...Cambridge police stood by calmly, but one of the preservers of the law was heard to exclaim, "We have enough to do, without standing around watching millionaires' sons ride around in snappy cars and walk in the Square in their birthday suits...
Skiers who like to ride up and slide down will be interested to know that the New Hampshire State Planning Commission in a recent bulletin stated that there are now 47 ski-tows in operation, an increase of fifty percent. Furthermore, an Owners' Association of operators has been formed to raise the price of daily tickets. This infant industry has not been making money, and owners complain that with equipment costing up to $2,000 and weekly overhead averaging $140, they are hardly clearing expenses. A take of $250 a week is necessary for a profit of $1,000 over...