Word: freight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a red and white banner across the entrance gate to East Berlin's National Gallery proclaimed: TREASURES OF WORLD CULTURE SAVED BY THE SOVIET UNION. Ninety freight cars had already been unloaded at East Berlin's Museum Island, and 210 more carloads were on the way. Already back in place at the National Gallery and its companion museum, the Pergamon: ¶ The original Ishtar Gate and Procession Street built for King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon about 580 B.C. and having reliefs of lions, bulls and dragons in white on blue tiles. ¶ Thirty...
...Freight carloadings by U.S. railroads touched another new high for the year for the sixth straight week in a row, reached the highest since...
...plan calls for restoration to the idled airline of the net extra passenger and freight revenues diverted to the other airlines during a labor shutdown...
September private housing starts, at 108,000, lifted the seasonally adjusted rate to 1,220,000, making last month the homebuilders' best September since 1955. Counting 10,000 public housing starts, it was the residential construction industry's best all-round September since 1950. Freight carloadings continued their five-week climb, rising 9,122 in the week to a new 1958 high of 686,138. Estimated steel production last week pushed to 73.6% of capacity, up from 71.6% during the week before...
Flaming starkly in cold October air, the white fires of steel processing burn inexorably into the small hours of the morning. At the foot of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. freight train hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River. One of many steelworkers on the night shift of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a huge plant which stretches out of the city for almost five miles, lifts his goggles and sits on an iron pig to eat a supper of cold pork and white bread. For him, and thousands...