Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the war" said Professor Holcombe, "the Inter-Allied Maritime Transport Shipping Council of the World was formed, and managed with excellent results along socialistic principles. These men had a stronger incentive than the goal of personal profit, a stronger incentive than the idea of personal gain it was to serve their country. This incentive was productive of astonishing results, and was economical and efficient...
Hardly had the railway strike been settled (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.) than the dockers' section of the Transport Workers' Union went on strike for a 43-cent daily wage increase. More than 110,000 men were idle; 1,000,000 more were expected to be thrown voluntarily out of work if the strike is allowed to get well under...
...Doheny and Sinclair companies for other services which they render. Thus of about 26,000,000 barrels of oil now estimated to be in Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome), the Government will receive about 1,666,666 barrels. The oil companies drill the wells, refine the oil, transport it (in the case of Sinclair and Teapot Dome, to the Coast; in the case of Doheny and Reserve No. 1, to Hawaii) and build oil storage tanks which are the property of the Government. It is a question of business whether the oil companies receive too much for these services...
Texas Affair. President Obregon applied to the U. S. Government for permission to transport troops through Texas, there being no Mexican railway running from the West to connect the two northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua. In making the Mexican Government's request known the U. S. Government issued the following announcement...
Similar permission has been extended in the past, the last occasion being in October, 1915, and again in November, 1915, when the de facto Government of Mexico, headed by Mr. Carranza, was allowed to transport Mexican troops from the Texas border through the United States to the State of Sonora, Mexico, where American lives and property were in serious danger from the operations of Mexican revolutionary bands...