Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens of Florida had been ordered to grow & deliver to the U. S. Government a certain number of oranges; if they failed to do so; and if they were punished by being shipped in freight cars from Florida to Alaska, their fate would be no harder than was that of 46,000 Cossacks last week in Russia...
...Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway cuts a winding steel path through the forests of Southern Ontario. Near Mile 115 it is sharply hemmed by the Agawa River on one side, an 800-ft. cliff on the other. Approaching this spot on his regular freight run one day last week, Fireman Graham McLeod saw a big grey timber wolf loping down the track about 500 yd. ahead. He knew what to do. As the train caught up, he crawled out on the cowcatcher, seized the wolf by its tail. Strong teeth slashed his fingers badly before he got his prize into...
...When red freight-car corpuscles are flowing through the arteries of U.S. business, the plants of three great companies are filled with the crash of hydraulic forges, the pounding of hundreds of hammers, making those mighty creatures of the industrial age, railroad locomotives, Iron Horses. The gestation period of an Iron Horse is about four months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies-Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Co., Lima Locomotive Works-received among them precisely one order for a new locomotive. It came from...
Railroads would lose the cream of their traffic in the summer but would have to keep their equipment ready for the winter movement of freight. U. S. carriers to which Reconstruction Finance Corp. has already advanced $350,000,000 are precariously close to bankruptcy and such a subsidy to a competitor would complete their ruin. If the roads were paid what the seaway would cost U. S. taxpayers they could haul free all the grain it would carry and much more besides...
...only safety was supremacy. One secret of the Standard Oil was that it was a combination of brains. His associates, Harkness, Flagler, Archbold, Rogers, Payne, Pratt and Whitney were among the shrewdest, most unscrupulous and determined men of business that this country has seen. They get what they wanted. Freight rebates, favorable court decisions, markets, all sorts of advantages were seized upon to keep them in the lead, which they kept in spite of public abuse and legislative attacks...