Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chalking insults (frequently obscene) to Adolf Hitler on German freight cars about to return to the Fatherland from Latvia is a favorite pastime in Lettish railway yards...
...getting them from work to home to work. Chicago, bigger than Paris, Philadelphia or Boston, has eschewed the convenience of subways, kept her citizens where God put them, atop the earth. But Chicago has gone into the bowels of the earth for another convenience that these other cities lack- freight subways. Last week a group of Chicagoans invaded Washington seeking capital from the R. F. C. to add to Chicago's tunnel traffic a new and livelier commodity: steam. Chicago's freight tunnels, which most Chicagoans live and die without ever seeing, have little likeness to the passenger...
...bigger trains and more of them have polished up the rails of all U. S. carriers. Weekly car-loadings have run as high as 29% above last year and many an operating deficit has changed to a profit. In the last reported week New York Central loaded 109,000 freight cars against 75,000 twelve months ago. Its June operating income was more than 2,000% above the year before-$4, 384,000 against $192,000. Average June operating income for the first 75 roads to report was 350% ahead of last year...
...York's' 77-story Chrysler Building, marooned 14 passengers in cars between floors. In the crowded main floor lobby Landlord Walter P. Chrysler waited 25 min. while mechanics tried to fix his elevators, finally ascended to his office on the 56th floor in a slow-moving freight elevator. Hugo C. Leuteritz, communications engineer of Pan American Airways, would not wait, stomped up 59 flights to his office...
...Sharon Heights, Mass, at 4:15 one morning last week lights came on, heads popped from windows as the New York, New Haven & Hartford freight train OB 4 chuffed by with a load of onions for the Boston market, its whistle going full blast all the way. Conductor D. L. Kent hurried up from the caboose, and still windows lighted, heads popped at every turn. Faster & faster went the 664-16, 17, 18 m.p.h. Her fireman shoveled as he never had before to keep up steam pressure, for the whistle was stuck fast. At last the OB 4 rolled into...