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Johnson had traveled the 770 miles to Chicago to attend a two-day meeting of U.S. railroad men. Their agenda: how to handle the increasing load on the railroads...
...Akron Beacon-Journal. But until his father died in 1933, no one in Akron noticed much about Cornell-trained Jack Knight except that he was a pleasant fellow with a flair for good clothes and winning at golf. His father's death left the Beacon-Journal with a load of depression debt. Akron gossiped: "This will be the end of the Beacon; Jack doesn't know how to settle down and work...
...Addressing a farm gathering in one Provincial election, he jumped on a manure spreader, whooped: "This is the first time I have ever spoken from a Conservative platform." Answered a man in the crowd: "Throw her into high, Mitch. She's got the biggest load on now she'll ever carry...
...Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay. Fifty U.S. sailors, all of them Negroes, are being tried for mutiny, for which the punishment may be death. The 50 are ammunition handlers who, a few weeks after the explosion of two ammunition-laden ships at Port Chicago (327 killed) refused to load a ship...
...Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, which mounts eight .50-cal. machine guns, can also carry at least a 1,000-lb. load...