Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salt. For shipping frozen fish from Manhattan to Detroit, 1,200 lb. of carbon dioxide supplanted 17,000 lb. of ice and 1,700 lb. of salt. The slightly higher cost of "dry ice" was much more than offset by the gain in space available for pay freight and the cleanliness and ease of handling...
...Record freight loading in 1926 was reported by the Amerian Railway Association. The number of cars loaded was 53,309,644, an increase of 4.1% over 1925, the best previous year. Loading of revenue freight exceeded 1,000,000 cars in 27 separate weeks' in 1926, the largest number of such weeks ever reported (seven more than...
...writing them down and then looking at them as Tar used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying, "Well, now. What to think of that?" The only sad note in Huck's boyhood came at the end, when his mother died and he cried for her in a freight car, then ran off to sell his papers, to shift for himself, to grow...
...Sweringens brought him to their Nickel Plate ten years ago. An operating genius, he reorganized, practically rebuilt, the road; made it as efficient a freight carrier as any other line of the country. He is a sales genius too. When the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland contemplated its present 21-story bank and office building, President Bernet got the business of hauling the construction material. That was a triumph. But it lasted briefly, for the late President Alfred Holland Smith of the New York Central heard of the matter. The New York Central had long done considerable business through...
...Freight Rates. "The Department of Agriculture's index of freight rates indicates that they are still 58% higher than before the War. It is instructive to compare this figure with the index for farm commodity prices, which in September stood at only 34% above the pre-War level. . . . These freight costs are large relatively as well as absolutely. They place the American farmer at a disadvantage of from four to ten cents a bushel in comparison with the freight costs of his competitors in Canada and Argentina...