Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four years after Britain inaugurated the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public passenger carrying railway...
...naval operations in California. Men-of-war from England, France, Russia and the U. S. had been tacking along that beautiful coast for years, itching to hoist-and occasionally hoisting-their flags in nominally Mexican territory. At the outbreak of war the U. S. Government sent Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a fire-eating officer from Princeton, N. J., to reinforce the Pacific squadron. Mexican ports were blockaded, Mexican ships burned, Mexican towns bombarded. In several engagements Commodore Stockton's seamen beat Mexican troops all hollow...
...weary rank-&-filers similarly united at Corpus Christi, Texas last month and at Stockton, Calif, two weeks ago. When the movement spread to Sacramento, President Bill Hutcheson of the A. F. of L. carpenters threatened to revoke the local carpenters' charter if they joined the new council. C. I. O. West Coast Director Harry Bridges applauded the trend, declared action for peace must come from the bottom...
Well did Benjamin Allin know that it takes more than sound engineering, machinery and strong backs to build a port. The trick is to operate one. By 1933, Stockton, with saw-toothed docks and sidings, swift, economical loading machinery and smooth management, was ready for business. Behind was a rich agricultural hinterland, ahead was the whole world to ship to and buy things from. And most of it could be handled a dollar a ton cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed...
Behind it is the general question of decentralization of Pacific Coast shipping. Already other towns, heartened by Stockton's battle, are planning expensive ports of their own: Sacramento, San Jose, Redwood City, California, and The Dalles, Ore. On the side of older ports are most ship line owners because of established handling facilities of their own and maintenance of present schedules at existing ports. Potent argument of shipowners against recognition of Stockton is that with calls to make at perhaps dozens of inland ports, shipping rates must certainly rise beyond anything hitherto contemplated...