Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶1,045 locomotives (backbone of any military supply system), 7,164 flatcars, 1,000 dump cars, 100 tank cars.
Coal producers warned the railroads that, unless empty coal cars were high-balled back to the mines, production of coal would have to be cut. For lack of cars to load, the Pittsburgh Coal Co., one of the largest U.S. bituminous-coal producers, closed twelve of its 16 mines. As...
Fuel-oil stocks dropped rapidly as whole trains of tank cars were flagged down in the West to wait until the East had dug out of the snow. Oil stocks on the Atlantic Seaboard were one and a half million barrels short of a year ago, when reserves were uncomfortably...
Food for Man & Beast. Nearly a million Eastern dairymen and poultrymen anxiously peered into their feed bins. With no cars to load, the grain mills at Buffalo were more than 80,000 tons behind in their shipments. Six of the largest grain and flour mills closed down.
As far west as Minnesota and Kansas, grain-elevator operators felt the pinch for cars. In Nebraska farmers cried that 100 million bu. of corn (one-third of Nebraska's bumper corn harvest last year) would spoil unless they got cars to move the grain to storage elevators.