Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre Samuel duPont, board chair-man of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, cellulose products), chairman of General Motors Corp., State Tax Commissioner of Delaware,* made known that he had bought a $250,000 pipe organ which will be brought in 14 freight cars this week to a specially constructed $750,000 building on his Kennett Square, Pa., estate where it will be played for him by Firman Swinnen, onetime Antwerp Cathedral organist...
Thus the fate of the Milwaukee. Old lake sailors described how, when a car ferry is pitched by high-running combers, the freight cars break from their clamps. On the Milwaukee were 27 loaded cars. Back and forth they must have creaked and strained, bolted and battered, gaining momentum until they catapulted thunderously overboard, capsizing the careening, helpless ferry...
...Oglala" has had an interesting history. It was first built in 1907 as a passenger and freight boat for the Eastern Steamship Lines, but at the opening of the World War it was converted for wartime...
...Said Dun's Review last week: "Nothing has occurred to indicate that widespread trade recession is under way and statistics of railroad freight traffic show, week after week, that distribution of merchandise remains at a notably high level...
...Great Northern R. R. ordered 14 locomotives. The Boston & Maine R. R. placed in operation five superpower $100,000 locomotives, ordered 1,500 freight cars. The New York Central R. R. ordered 42 electric locomotives for handling freight to cost over $100,000 each. Leonor Fresnel Loree ("Little Giant") announced that his Delaware & Hudson R. R. was constructing a $125,000 locomotive to have 14% working efficiency compared to the present 7%. Steam pressure in this engine will be the highest yet obtained...