Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circumstance which led to the invention of shredded wheat was the burning of the Steel Car Company's shops in St. Joseph, Mo. By building steel passenger and freight cars away back in the 'eighties, Henry D. Perky felt that he was doing a great public service; just as years afterwards he believed in his biscuits as a religion and, in Conquistador spirit, persuaded the people of New England to eat them, as it were at the sword's point, sharpened by a scorn that startled these good people into submission...
Into the cold grey waters of the Gulf of Finland at Leningrad, last week, were launched two hulking freight boats. Each weighed 5,340 tons. Sister ships, they are two of the largest freighters in the built-in-Russia Soviet commercial fleet...
...nation is solid in support of Boy King Mihai-or as Queen Marie calls him "Our Tender and Lovely Hope" (TIME, Nov. 26). Appropriately enough last week, King Mihai ignored his Parliament and played with trains-real trains. One locomotive with which he played was the first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into the cab of the freight monster-with Queen Marie watchfully present-and actually clutched and tugged at the throttle with sufficient force to open it and spin the giant driving wheels. Precocious...
Estimated average value of a 1928 car was wholesale $650, retail $876; of a 1928 truck wholesale $709, retail $955. The difference between wholesale and retail prices paid for freight, storage, interest, dealer's profit...
...many days can a crew of five endure a continuous airplane flight? How many days can a motor keep the plane going? The Army wants to know. So do motor and plane makers, passenger and freight carriers. One condition of such tests is that the plane be fueled in the air. An initial experiment took place at Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked...