Word: freight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE is expected because "bad order ratio" (number of cars out of service because of a need for repairs), has risen above safe level of 5% to 8.6% national average. In some areas, such as the Allegheny region (which includes the Pennsylvania and B. & O. roads), the average...
...about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners and West Berlin industries, send some 14,000 truckloads over the road monthly, plus some 600 barges through the Mittelland Canal, and a dozen freight cars daily by rail...
...Pennsylvania Railroad approved construction of 11,500 new freight cars, beginning an extensive program to meet growing business...
...jump in steel came largely from the pickup in autos. Sales of 128,000 new cars in February's first ten days rode ahead of the year-ago pace, and production last week climbed 36% above a year ago. The continuing production pickup pushed freight carloadings more than 6% above last year's level, the fifth straight weekly rise. Total industrial production in January moved up for the ninth straight month to 143% of the 1947-49 average, just four points below the all time peak of December 1956. Personal income was also up by $2.4 billion...
...billion in 1958. ¶ Department-store sales as a measure of consumer confidence increased 8% from the comparable period in 1958. The full-month totals for January show a 6% increase over last year. Of twelve Federal Reserve Districts reporting, only one of them, Minneapolis, failed to gain. ¶ Freight carloadings rose 5.8% last week for the biggest year-to-year improvement since August...