Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Persian goods, except wool, cotton, herbs, etc., which Russia needs, may be shipped tariff-free through Soviet territory to Europe on payment of official freight rates...
...Erie lake shore from or near Brockton, some 50 miles west of Buffalo, to Toledo; 2) Ownership or joint control of the Lackawanna as a means of relieving the present main line of the Pennsylvania from Harrisburg, Pa., to Trenton, N. J., of traffic congestion; 3) A short freight line from Chicago to St. Louis, preferably the Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...freight left Hartford, Conn., last week and arrived in Havana, Cuba. It carried Royal typewriters. The carrier was a Ford-Stout all-metal, three-motor airplane. Included in the equipment was a device to drop freight by parachute. It dropped these typewriters from a height of 700 feet. Unbruised, they worked perfectly...
...Millis, Mass., where Clicquot Club ginger ale is made, the famed Clicquot Club "Eskimos" sang, down by the railroad tracks, of their bubbling, tangy product. It was the 42nd anniversary of their company's founding. But more significant than that, the 40-car freight train that stood on the tracks where they sang was loaded with 400,000 bottles of Clicquot Club ginger...
...bottles were placed butt on cap "they would make a pencil of glass 63 miles high." They contained sufficient drink "to supply every man, woman and child in Oregon with a glassful." The glassful would be cold, for the freight cars were refrigerated. They made up "the first solid train of trademarked merchandise ever to pull out of New England...