Word: carloads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Business for the nation's storekeepers was better last week. Warm-weather buying gave a little fillip to retail trade, which has just about held its own since April. Merchants in the drought districts, however, were demanding 50% cancellation clauses in their contracts. Carloadings were still nearly 13% above the same week of the year before but loadings of less than carload lots, almost wholly consumer merchandise, dropped 20,000 cars from the week before. Ore & coke for the steel industry, madly piling up inventories in anticipation of strikes, accounted for no small part of the carloading gain...
After expressing his opinion that Widener was as interesting as the Germanic Museum. His Excellency drove around the subway station and back to Boston, escorted by two motorcycle officers a carload of Boston policemen a pair of German detectives, the German consul in Boston, and an attache of the Embassy...
Washington, March 22--Complete re-organization of the nation's facilities for handling freight in less than carload lots, with rail and truck transportation co-ordinated, is proposed in a report made public tonight by Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-ordinator of transportation...
MURDER OF A MISSING MAN-Arthur M. Chase-Dodd, Mead ($2). With a carload of near-witnesses, including a New York detective, it takes a sharp-eyed little spinster to ferret out both the identity and the murderer of the corpse in the end compartment. The voluble Mr. Goldstein helps...
...Popular Mechanics. And some of them have unbent sufficiently to go to their customers instead of waiting for their customers to come to them. Led by Pennsylvania R. R., a group of eastern carriers went to their customers last week with a collection and delivery service for less-than-carload-lot (l.c.l.) freight shipments...