Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edith Nourse Rogers, Representative from Massachusetts, one of the four lady members of the House elected a fortnight ago, visited the White House to discuss the textile industry. She urged a Universal 48-hour week and lower freight rates...
Fifteen minutes later there pulled up on the siding next the faithful a titanic freight locomotive, geared to pull 110 freight cars at 40 miles an hour. It puffed mockingly at Mr. Denihan and his friends. Attached to it was one lone daycoach, at which covetous glances were cast...
...stepped Mr. Hart. "Pile in, gentlemen," invited Mr. Hart. The gentlemen piled, and the freight pulled out toward Boston, pulling as if it were drawing 110 cars...
...prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon. It took its name from the vehicle-the predecessor of the modern freight car-which carried freight in the 1790's from Philadelphia to Lancaster and the Conestoga country over the Old Lancaster Pike. When this road, the pioneer turnpike of the continent, was extended westward over the Alleghenies into Steubenville and the Ohio Lands, the Conestoga Wagon went with it and so became a symbol of the westward march of the pioneer...
...Rock Island, Ill., one Beulah Nichols, 16, guzzled gin, entered the bedroom of one W. H. Mahoney, 75; pointed a revolver at him, disrobed, put on Mr. Mahoney's clothes, forced him to cut her hair below a slouch cap, "hopped" a freight train with her "boy friend," rode to Galva, Ill., spent the day, "hopped" another freight train, "bummed" her way home, was received by her parents with open arms. Soon newsgatherers discovered that Beulah Nichols' mother is "Vashti Dale," author of articles for household magazines on "How to Train Girls...