Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussed high railroad freight rates as a factor in the Farm Problem: "It is as if a row of toll gates had been placed around this whole section of our country. ... Some calculations which I made a few years ago showed that the increases in railway rates had in effect moved the Midwest 200 to 400 miles further from seaboard...
...General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half a dozen other major cities. But he did not bother to show whence the money would come...
...stand at the butt, get set, cry "pull!" and blow the sailing "pigeons" to dusty smithereens. There was also baseball-the opening game of the annual tournament of the Head-of-the-Lakes semiprofessional baseball association. The field was beside the railroad yards in Superior. Long freight and ore trains trundled by constantly. President Coolidge threw in the first ball and the first battery knocked it out-of-the-lot.* Mrs. Coolidge munched chocolates and watched vivaciously. John Coolidge, though there were many hits, errors, wild throws, etc., looked badly bored. The President left after the third inning-his baseball...
...Majesty's Prime Ministers. Hopefully they turned to consider two additional and alternative measures designed to reduce unemployment which were proposed, last week, to the House of Commons by harassed Stanley Baldwin. First came a promise that the Baldwin Government will shortly force reduction of British freight rates on coal, in an effort to stimulate that industry, and relieve unemployment among miners. Second, Mr. Baldwin announced that Simon Joseph Fraser, Baron Lovat, Permanent Undersecretary of the Dominions Office, will shortly set sail for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to prepare a survey and general plan for integrating the manpower...
Soon the great Samport Tunnel, last and epochal link in the trans-Pyrenean railway was dedicated. The engineering feat can only be called epochal. For two milleniums and more, Emperors, Kings, men and freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...