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Way back when Joe Mcarthy was a Senentor (Red Scare) Was Kalmbach Affected at all?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Peterson6868</i> <br /><br />And did Mr Kalmbach Support Joe Macarthy? Or Disavaw? Or Ignore? <br />What will history say? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I think it was during the McCarthy era that America produced it's first shackle box cars. <br />Perhaps it was Kalmbach who first exposed the story? <br /> <br />I heard a rumor once that Budd, seeing the handwriting on the wall for passenger travel, was working on a plan to steal the government's shackle boxcar business with a new design that put people in metal cans (stainless steel, of course) 6 at a time, just like sardines, and stacking the filled containers inside specially modified auto racks. Giving rise to the term 'high density corridor'...[8]
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