Word: steamboated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Told about it, crotchety old Colonel J. Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, head of the U.S. Office of Defense Transportation and a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, went into action. Result: the I.C.C. ordered U.S. railroads, which had 12,177 more Canadian boxcars than Canada had of theirs, to get 5,000 of them off U.S. tracks promptly, even if empty...
...Chicago, a stray horse turned up at the Municipal Airport, galloped gaily around the runways and brought air traffic to a halt for half an hour. In Charleston, W.Va., Frank Isaacs landed his seaplane on the Kanawha River, got run over by a steamboat...
Like Grady and preceding political heads, Killion took over the job with no previous shipping experience. The only nautical note that reporters could find in his record was the name of his birthplace-Steamboat Springs, Colo. An ex-newspaperman and chain-store lobbyist, he got his first political job through a long-standing friendship with California's New Dealing Governor Culbert Levy Olson...
...Steamboat round the Bend. The Greene Line Steamers, Inc. announced that the 250-ft. steamer Delta Queen, which it bought last year from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will soon go into drydock in preparation for Mississippi River service. Launched in Glasgow in 1924, the steel-hulled Queen has served most of her time as a West Coast ferry. In her new role as one of the Mississippi's few extant sternwheelers, she will offer -air-conditioned accommodations for up to 200 passengers on trips between Cincinnati and New Orleans...
Last week, "Steamboat" Johnson sounded again. The embargo would go on this week unless Canada, 1,750 cars above its quota, got into line. "We need those cars," said he, "and, damn it we're going to get 'em." That carried the teapot tempest right into the Dominion Cabinet. It dug through piles of memoranda, stacks of statistics, sadly concluded that Canada's railroaders had failed to keep their word mainly because they could not bring themselves to return the cars empty. Get going, said the Cabinet and hang the expense...