Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighteen thousand warriors?the greatest single army in recent Mexican history ?were rumbling out of Mexico City in freight cars, led by ex-President General Plutarco Elias Calles, to do battle with the rebels in Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora. As bombing planes roared into the zenith, as President Herbert Clark Hoover hastened the despatch of 10,000 Enfield rifles and multitudinous rounds of ammunition to the Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down...
...plates. Then came the most perilous operation: 1,850,000 copies of Cosmopolitan had to be distributed throughout the land to wholesalers and retailers without the nature of its leading article being made public. All leeway time allowance for distribution was eliminated. Shipment was made by express instead of freight at additional cost of $12,000. Wholesalers were admitted to the secret and enjoined to secrecy at the moment of shipment. Not until three days before the Cosmopolitan reached newsstands was the truth let out. Then, because other magazines were beginning to get publicity by boasting of similar features...
Such trains promise great economies in air transportation. The greater the load which a power plant can pull the cheaper the charges for passengers or freight, and the better the profits for the entrepreneurs. The chief difficulty at present seems to be the initial motive power to start the train from the ground. Once in the air the motor pull for a train is not much greater than for a single plane. Railroaders and motor truckers have the same problem on an easier scale. A solution for the air seems to be multi-motored planes with all engines working...
Another apparent benefit of air trains is related to Speed, chief advantage of air over surface travel. A fast-flying train can touch at different airports without stopping, by cutting off its trailers one by one with passengers or freight...
...tent in the Grand Ballroom of the Commodore, covered the floor with sawdust, secured sideshow freaks and wild animals from his circus friend John Ringling. When the delegation arrived, it walked into a genuine circus, complete even to an elephant which the Commodore's freight elevator had safely transported...