Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freight...
What they had the rest of the morning playing horsey and freight train up and down Mt. Auburn Street and making teams of cars for each other's amusement. But finally, about twelve o'clock, the chief came down to open up the station and ordered them to put their playthings away in the nearest garage...
...Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul faced the dilemma of perishing slowly for lack of through freight, or of entering into transcontinental railroading as a late comer. It assumed the later alternative and, in 1913, assumed the liabilities of the Puget Sound extension, after having advanced $155,000,000 to construct...
...Road gains a position of vantage in the Southwest carrying trade. Looking forward both to further competition, and to a day when the Southern Pacific will seek a road to the East, the Rock Island realizes that the "Black Belt" will be both an important factor in consolidating its freight system and a valuable power in any trade with the Pacific road...
...which were combatted in that third decade ago. One was the formation of pools and price-fixing agreements with the aim of driving smaller competitors out of business. The other was a form of connivance between certain favored companies and various railways so that those companies might have lower freight rates than their competitors...