Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly an office secret. Everyone knew about the Rockefellers, and the Pennsylvania Railroad, Ivy Lee's first account, which he held until his death. With the Pennsylvania, Pressagent Lee first applied his theory that a corporation should "take the public into its confidence." He "humanized" tracks and freight rates, dividends and dollars. The idea worked well for Pennsylvania, and even better for Ivy Lee, who came to hear himself called "Physician to Corporate Bodies...
...Evansville, Ind. Big Four's better equipment and ability to bring in business were alone sufficient to interest L. & N. But there was something else. If L. & N. sent its passenger trains out of Chicago over Big Four tracks, New York Central would reciprocate by routing plenty of freight over L. & N. The deal was made without much difficulty...
From the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian high above the harbor floated a great black banner and other streamers of crepe hung from nearly every window in the town when the Dubrovnik came in with its sad freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...
...time of the accident there were seven trains approaching, leaving or passing Signalman Bloor's junction. He had just passed through a Manchester express, a westbound freight, the doomed local. He held up a cattle train behind the local to let a fish train pass south. Said he: "The fish train was the key to the movements in my mind." Up from the south roared the fast express. Mr. Bloor got the fish train out of the way. "I was quite relieved in my mind...
...peak railroad year of 1926 Westinghouse Air Brake made $10,000,000. A Mellon (Richard K.) sits on the board but even the Mellons could not prevent the company from losing $600,000 last year. So far this year railroads have ordered about 13 times as many freight cars as they built or bought all last year, and Westinghouse is once more in the black. Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger...