Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home, over a back road to the Prescott Highway, and so to Dow's Lake again, and the finish line. Seven teams jogged along, started by the pistol of His Excellency, Viscount Willingdon. Not long ago the Canadian Government encouraged dog-team races because dog teams were the only freight haulers of the northern wilderness after October, an important factor in territorial expansion. Now tractors are taking their place, so the government sanctions dog-team races for another reason? because it is great sport and attracts visitors. The course was 90 miles long, and the teams covered it in three...
...Containers, used for freight and express shipments and using either solid or corrugated fibre...
Laredo business languished. But freight cars had to be diverted to Brownsville and Eagle Pass. Governor Dan Moody appealed to Secretary of State Stimson, then to President Hoover himself. Texas Senators implored the President to do something. It was even suggested that President Hoover hold a long distance telephone conversation with Mexico's President Emilio Portes...
...roads kept many from her meetings in Mattoon After, leaving a tiny audience at Olney, she found that the flooding Wabash had made her motor useless, had stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...
...England consumers, long inured to paying more for west-of-New York produce and manufactures, as well as New England producers, hampered by delays and high freight rates to and from their mills, may again recall that when Pennsylvania sought to reach its long western arm into their communities (chiefly Boston) a few years ago, by proposing to annex New York, New Haven & Hartford, nothing happened. Is it coincidence that New England-to-the-West railroad competition would still be a myth after the fulfillment of the I.C.C. merger proposal...