Word: deadheader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than any French Premier since De Gaulle. Here was a man who bluntly announced what he thought France should do, demanded authority to do it, and acted as if he meant to carry it out. After years of trimming and timidity, Mendès-France had struck off the deadhead of France's postwar malaise-immo bilisme. Whether his 30-day gamble gamble is won or lost, the French people had found in Mendès-France something that had long been denied them-leadership...
Weekends are no problem for the freeloader or deadhead as he is often termed. There are always parties on weekends, and the experienced moocher has more possibilities than he can take care of. During the week itself, however, an entire day will often go by without a drink caged from an unsuspecting host...
...from shippers; the Pennsy and the N.Y., N.H. & H. used some eleven miles of Long Island tracks, paid only half of what the fee should have been; the Pennsy leased the Long Island's Wheelspur Yard for a piddling $13,000 in 1948, forced the L.I. to deadhead its own cars to less accessible yards at a cost of $370,000 a year. "Complete misunderstanding of the facts," snapped the Pennsy. When the L.I. went into bankruptcy Pennsy filed claims of close to $53 million...
...Haven) totaled $300,000 last year, less than half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight yard near Manhattan, but leases it to the Pennsy, which pays it a piddling $13,000 a year. This forces the subsidiary to deadhead its own cars to less accessible yards, at a cost last year of about...
...America now holds a $58,000 mortgage) have hopped all over the U.S. barnstorming for cargo to fly. President Prescott has fixed his own fat prices ($1,600 for a full-plane, coast-to-coast trip), charged shippers double the one-way price when planes have had to deadhead to Skyways' base in Los Angeles...