Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting things strongly." Later, admitting he was for pinking Capitalism and did not care who knew it, he said: "If I had resigned the office of bishop as many times as I have been asked to, I'd be like a small boy hopping on and off a freight...
...Weirton Steel Co., big National Steel subsidiary, bought 15,000 freight cars and 400 locomotives from Baltimore & Ohio R. R. to mash up for scrap. Each freight car will yield 15 tons of steel, each locomotive 90 tons. Price of scrap...
...stewards, exhibited itself to 3,000 an hour in New York before touring leisurely out to Chicago. Mexico City was polishing up a special Presidential train to bear the famed Monte Alban jewels to Chicago's Fair. From Japan to Chicago had come a national exhibit filling 17 freight cars...
After three years of exile de Pinedo, 43, believed himself in line for promotion last autumn "to the highest possible military air rank." Instead he was retired, put on reserve. In January he went to the U. S. with an idea for an aerial "tramp" freight service around the world in the southern hemisphere. Last week he popped up in Manhattan where he had been going under the name of "Mr. Smith." He had a new plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia...
Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...