Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invisible for nearly two weeks, moved through the evening streets firing a silent pistol at whatever human targets took his fancy in the house windows or under streetlights. A contractor was first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon made only a muffled chug in the night as his lead whizzed after pedestrians and into people's homes...
...Mile. Each roadway mile of the Santa Fe Railroad earned a profit of $4,492 in 1927. The gross revenue per mile was $25.802, of which $19,477 came from freight (1,802,759 tons...
...understood that the new line would be inaugurated by a handshake across the Franco-Italian frontier between President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. That would have been no more than appropriate-for unquestionably this de luxe Riviera route is of greater social importance than the trans-Pyrenean freight line recently opened by the King of Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation handclasp across the frontier. Therefore...
...motors and machines. General Kincaid was ashamed. "I felt," said he last week, "like turning up my coat collar and slinking away." He noted too that "Germany has 60 cities linked by air transport now. Over this network is maintained a constant fast transport of mail, passengers and freight. No other country in the world has anything to compare with...
Railroad Reputation. President John J. Bernet of the Erie last week spoke to his employees as follows: "During the years gone by the Erie Railroad has been better known as a freight road than as a carrier of passengers. Perhaps the impression got about that the railroad did not welcome passenger traffic. Whatever it may have been, I want to make it plain now that the Erie is a railroad, not a freight road or a passenger road, but a railroad serving its public with all the kinds of transportation the public needs. We not only want passenger business...