Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceilings on meat were not the only cause, or the main one. The main reason was that cattle and hog raisers had sent every animal they could to market, to cash in when ceilings had been off. Lean cattle were again going to feeder lots to be held in the expectation that ceilings would again be lifted...
...Detroit. In Willow Run there were only 50 chassis in various stages of construction on the two production lines. Feeder lines for parts were not yet in operation. Cars were still being pushed down the assembly line by hand. In fact, by ordinary production-line standards, the cars were being handmade. In the light of this, Joe Frazer's prediction that K-F would make 2,500 cars in August seemed highly optimistic. Nevertheless, none could say that Joe and Henry, with plenty of help from son Edgar Kaiser, weren't doing their darnedest to make cars...
Many a freight and charter line hoped to grow into a full-fledged, regularly scheduled feeder line. But to get permission to fly a new route, airlines must prove to the Civil Aeronautics Board that the service is economically necessary, the company financially able to supply it. The process of proving it is long (a year or two) and expensive. Said one pilot: "I figure it will cost...
...does CAB favor applications from untried companies. Since its creation in 1938, CAB has granted only one short feeder route to a new line...
...years ago the Courier defeated a Lincoln mayor when he disagreed with it on parking meters. Now it is thumping away at an airport for feeder lines, a war memorial. It still puts out a lively, fortnightly tabloid, with pinups, for local boys overseas. Executive Editor Ken Goodrich prods news out of 19 rural correspondents, runs locally-written guest editorials. His five full-time staffers write on copy paper of different colors, so that he can tell at a glance who wrote what...