Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Light freight transport...
Maine was the only New England state to escape. The milk supply of Boston and all westward mail and freight service were almost entirely cut off. Damage rode on the raging Connecticut River down through Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, Conn. Oil tanks and wharves collapsed. Sewers backed up. Typhoid threatened. Tens of thousands were homeless. A fall of snow increased their misery. The total damage for New England was estimated at $50,000,000. More than 150 died...
...retails for $9 a ton, which they claimed is too great a profit for the middleman. They therefore suggested that their claims could be met from this source without raising the price to the consumer. But the middlemen have to pay for unloading at the freight yards, transportation to the selling point and unloading there, not to mention high overhead cost...
...great" was a contention of the President. The last available figures registered a decline of 11% which Wall Street considered hardly small. "The roads are doing about the same amount of business as last year," was another finding of the President. They are not, pointed out the brokers, for freight car loadings thus far have decreased 4½%. The Coolidge reference that "business is better than it has ever been" was also contrasted with the fact that the record of 1926 was better...
Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...