Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Western railroads wanted a general freight rate increase of 5 percent; the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated for more than a year and last week said, "No." Its report asserted that, "so far as the major portion of the western district is concerned, no financial emergency exists...
Some one had left a switch open. The train leaped up a siding and buried its snorting nose in a freight train. The flier's engineer was killed, his mates injured painfully. Back in the sleeper, the motherly woman awoke, thought she had heard a thunder clap, dropped off again. She was fatigued after her previous day's campaigning for renomination by the Democrats. When she heard what had happened, she proceeded to her home townlet of Temple right nearby, telephoned the executive mansion at Austin to say she was all right, and, when the sun shone once...
...called them "seadromes"- enormous floating islands of steel and concrete, to cover 100 or more acres and be anchored at intervals across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer...
...discreet little third-rail electric railroad, linking St. George, Hamilton and Somerset Ferry. The Bermuda Railway Co. Ltd. was careful to add that its trains would have trailers, for baggage and bicycles." Die-hard Bermudans nevertheless shook their heads. "Alas," said they, "and then it will be freight cars, milk trains, grade crossings, Progress...
...conspiracies; 2) a highly mobile squad of 88 to nose out and prevent diversion of industrial alcohol for synthetic whiskies and gins; 3) 88 other sleuths to work with the American Railway Association in matching wits with shippers of beer who now, it seems, can baffle the shrewdest freight-masters by disguising their bubblesome liquid as lumber, cement, merchandise...