Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locomotives. New York Central, headed for receivership in the depth of Depression, was about to cut its interest charges by refunding old bonds. And Pennsylvania announced that it would start immediately on electrification of 85 mi. of four-track main line west to Harrisburg, Pa. Various yard, branch and freight lines will be electrified at the same time, bringing the cost of the whole project to about $158,000,000 and completing the program launched in 1928 by the late William Wallace Atterbury...
...While the roads were learning how to make 50? do what $1 did before, they also learned that the days of their monopoly were over. Hard-headed and reactionary for the most part, the railroads were literally starved into teaching themselves the rudiments of modern merchandising. Some freight agents may still act as though business were a bore, some conductors may still regard passengers as trespassers, but by & large the roads are out to make friends as they never were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service...
...packed neatly in four mail coaches of a special nine-car train that was manned by crack machine gunners concealed behind drawn blinds. With right of way cleared, the train chuffed off on its 530-mi. journey. Several hundred yards in front of the gold train went a dummy freight train...
...possible to show that Japan has been exacting for years from China concession after concession involving millions if not billions in tariff favors. The state railways of the Chinese Dictator have in certain instances run each day and for as many months as required, a special "smugglers' freight car" for the convenience of Japanese and Koreans engaged in systematically evading the customs duties of North China. One can buy Japanese goods openly in China today at prices less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them. The smugglers swagger about with pistols in their belts...
...titillates two branches of heavy industry, steel and the equipment makers which use the steel. Fortnight ago New York Central ordered 100 locomotives at one crack, more than were ordered by all railroads last year (83 ). Last week, along with its rails, Atchison ordered 27 locomotives and 3,025 freight cars. Pacific Fruit Express, jointly owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost of $10,500,000. For joint service between Chicago and the Pacific Coast, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Chicago & North Western...