Search Details

Word: carloading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...took their horses away, so it is closed. Near the South Gate, called Nam Tai Moon, the brick railway station was seething with refugees and other travelers. Nobody was northbound-that way lay Manchuria. Only a handful of Russian liaison officers-no troops-had appeared in Seoul. When one carload neared the city, they were politely turned back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: City of the Bell | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...rate on a carload of work clothes from Macon to Chicago (819 miles) is $1.56 per 100 pounds v. only $1.12 from Philadelphia to Chicago (816 miles). Other Georgia rates are just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Georgia Rebels Again | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...doorknob, but there was point-free meat all over him. Ed Butters, who had gone over to Lansing from his farm at Coldwater, had read all about buffalo, and now he had seen one. Last week, 14 months later, steak-hungry New Yorkers were buying the first carload of Butters' buffalo at prices as high as $1.25 a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pursuit in the Black Hills | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...campaign begging housewives to buy more eggs had only fair results. For one thing, housewives could not understand why the egg price had to stay up at 55? a dozen, when millions of eggs were going bad for lack of buyers. Then WFA sold 100 of the piled-up carloads at $30 each for livestock feed. Critics saw a major scandal. Why, they demanded, were eggs that WFA had bought for something like $6,000 a carload dumped as cattle feed rather than dehydrated or stored? WFA's answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: E Is for Egg | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Wolfs Clothing. In Union City, N.J., Deputy City Game Warden William Kuhn conjectured that the timber wolf prowling the Hudson County marshland had probably entered from Canada last December- in a carload of Christmas trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Previous | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | Next