Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When traffic is light, rails become dull with rust. In the past four months bigger trains and more of them have polished up the rails of all U. S. carriers. Weekly car-loadings have run as high as 29% above last year and many an operating deficit has changed to a profit. In the last reported week New York Central loaded 109,000 freight cars against 75,000 twelve months ago. Its June operating income was more than 2,000% above the year before-$4, 384,000 against $192,000. Average June operating income for the first 75 roads...
Ford made railroad news. He promised the roads a bigger slice of his business. Reason was not that Henry Ford has any particular sympathy for U. S. railroads but that his automobiles are not satisfactorily delivered under his present "drive-out" system. Dealers, fetching Fords from the 32 U. S. assembly plants, grow weary of holding their new cars down to the breaking-in speed (30 m.p.h.), step on the gas and damage the motor. "Drive-out" deliveries will be sharply restricted in future. Deliveries of 200 mi. or more will go to the railroads...
...Bigger dosages raised the metabolic rate, fever, respiration and pulse of animals until they died, simply of living too fast...
...lower. Confusion on the floor was at its worst. The ticker fell so far behind (it closed 50 minutes after the market) that some traders, not knowing how deep a fall might be in progress, dumped stocks as a safety measure. Stop-loss orders and impaired margins dumped still bigger quantifies of shares into the maelstrom. Not since 1929 had the market had such a day or such a three-days. Rumor ran wild: the Exchange was going to close; speculators were jumping out of windows; President Roosevelt had had an apoplectic stroke the night before; he had died...
...line requires entree to the ports of at least two nations, probably more. Moreover, Britain's Imperial Airways, Germany's Luft Hansa, France's Aeropostale, Holland's K. L. M., all have bid for a part in any prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single agency could afford, all interested parties have agreed to pool their findings. Thus into the pot go the charts made by Pan American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale...