Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story simply pulsates with social significance. James Cagney and Pat O'Brien start out as slum kids. After they have been caught pilfering a freight car, Mr. Cagney saves Mr. O'Brien's life by yanking him out of the way of a locomotive. This is really a pity, since one grows into a reforming priest, the other a big shot gangster. Their paths cross years later, and you know the rest as well as Warner Brothers...
...likened the world to a room in the house of the universe. There in three rooms on Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds of his childhood again--and he sees not just one isolated mile of the "run but the whole thing, hundreds of miniature miles of it. There, too, are the men he loves, the hoggers, the scoop-swingers, the men of the punch, the wipers, the brakies...
Functioning as a kind of hobo ex machina, Bob Burns arrives by freight train in a town resembling Emporia, Kans., takes up residence in the county jail at the invitation of the kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed...
...ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung fore & aft cargo decks make money on freight. The Noordam cost $2,300,000, can carry 9,000 tons of cargo, 120 passengers...
...Since 1930 airline mail-loads have increased over 100%, passenger-miles 500%, freight and express 1,600%. Airline employment has meanwhile increased 350%, from 3,400 to 12,000, may reach 25,000 by 1943. The industry as a whole can expect to employ at least 97,000, at most...