Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pullman Company of the freight transportation business. Al though only the fourth largest manufacturer of freight cars,* it is the largest owner and operator of freight cars ? 40,000 of them, which it leases out to various railroads. Of these, 45% are tank cars, the rest are divided principally among stock, glass-lined milk and refrigerator cars. The company through subsidiaries owns ten repair shops far-flung through out the U. S., operates 5,000 freight cars abroad, has the largest storage terminal in the U. S. (at Goodhope, La.?a town built by the company...
From England, France, Hawaii, the Philippines and many a U. S. waterway, little sailboats came by freight to Chesapeake Bay, were refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys...
Commenting on freight volume, last week Railway Age said: "This is the first year in the entire history of the railroads of the United States when their freight business has been as small as it was ten years before." Besides general depression, reasons are well-known: competition with busses, waterways, pipelines; some lower rates as result of political agitation. In 1920 there was an average daily car shortage of 81,000 cars. This year the same freight volume has left an average daily surplus of 450,000 cars. One reason: incomparably greater efficiency
...Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Blackstone. Va., and his big blonde bride arrived at Manhattan from Sao Paulo last week. News reporters and photographers greeted them. Bishop Cannon: "I am an American citizen and don't wish to be harassed." Mrs. Cannon emerging from hiding in the freight hold screamed hysterically: "I suppose they [the reporters] think this is swell...
Paradoxically, Yen's resignation, his evacuation of Peking were not decisive, rather the reverse. The old city's new master is a human enigma: Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, War Lord of Manchuria, from which his wellarmed, well-fed troops arrived by the thousand in swiftly chuffing freight trains...