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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Shipping Explosives Through New York Harbor
The island was really just known for its shipping business, a business that turned to munitions and firearms and explosives with the onset of world war one. The railroads would bring these explosives across the country, from their munition plants to jersey city and out along this land bridge to unload into the warehouses or directly on to barges that would take them out to the ships. By 19 15, because of developments in the war and the blockade of germany by the british royal navy, the us were trading arms with the allied forces of great britain, france and russia.
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