Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time came to transport the thousands of record sheets, one for each Newburyport citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...
...world no transport achievement in 1935 equaled that of President Juan Terry Trippe of Pan American Airways with his inauguration of Clippers winging the Pacific to Manila (TIME...
...remaining 1,800 bales would have cost him $45,000. Therefore he took ten bales to the railroad, asked to have them shipped to New Orleans for transshipment to Liverpool. The Texas & New Orleans refused to take the consignment because the Bankhead Act forbade it to transport cotton that does not bear tags, either tax-free or tax-paid...
Farmer Moor sued the railroad to make it transport his cotton on the ground that the Bankhead Act was unconstitutional. Courts upheld the railroad on the ground that Plaintiff Moor either should have paid his tax first and then sued to recover from the Government, if the law was unconstitutional, or sued the railroad for damages...
...Last spring Adolph H. Lubin, wrecker, of Springfield, Ill., paid $25,000 for wrecking privileges at Chicago's Century of Progress, went to work on the Hall of Science. Last week, as steel girders of the Travel and Transport Building crashed. Wrecker Lubin figured he had salvaged lumber, wallboard, steel, electrical hardware, plumbing, other items, with a total value...