Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharply into the superliner traffic. "The American contribution to North Atlantic travel should be fireproof, vibrationless, attractive and economical vessels of reasonable size and speed, distinguished by the utmost in safety and comfort . . . available for National defense. . . ." For the rest, the U. S. should build fairly standardized combination freight & passenger types. However, the Commission's first proposed type-the so-called C-2 carrying 7,000 tons of freight, twelve passengers and a crew of 46-has met practical objections from shipowners...
...estimated that in the event of a war with a major foreign power, the U. S. would need a minimum of 1,000 merchant ships of all types. These are now available but they are old, and in certain categories there is serious shortage. There are only ten combination freight & passenger vessels which could be converted into aircraft carriers. The Navy thinks there should be at least 20. The 300 tankers needed to service the battle fleets are available but there is a deficiency of high-speed tankers (16½ knots or better). When Roosevelt I sent...
...port. Directing this development was a young Chicagoan, Benjamin Casey ("Benjy") Allin, who until the War's end was a captain of engineers. At Houston, Engineer Allin found 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico a ghost port over whose wharves but a few hundred thousand tons of freight passed each year. After twelve years of Benjy Allin's management, Houston, with 16,000,000 tons of shipping in 1935, was fourth ocean port in the U. S. In 1931, at $1,000 a month, Stockton wooed Engineer Allin away from his astounding Texas creation to be port...
Some pieces of freight are eight feet by four feet, weigh 1,800 Ib. For these top hatches in the airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip...
...since more than half of steel production is melted scrap, dropped 25? to $14.75 a ton, compared with $22 in mid-August. Dun & Bradstreet reported that retail trade was still from 4% to 15% above 1936 but by a steadily narrowing margin maintained in some cases by price cutting. Freight car loadings were off to 771,655 cars, 5% less than for the same week of 1936. In Lawrence, Mass., the world's largest factory of its kind, Pacific Print Works, shut down for ten days along with all other textile firms in the area, and out of work...