Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many times has the Presidential boom of Hiram W. Johnson been wrecked in the prevision of political correspondents. But never had it come so close to annihilation as it did before a Michigan Central freight train...
...fishing boats which are slowly drawing from Cape Ann all the glory that in former years was Gloucester's. Even though the sail has given way to the funnel, however, and cargoes are now coal and lumber instead of silk and spice, Boston's sea commerce is rapidly decreasing; freight differentials and a lack of American vessels, it would seem, are responsible for the removal of many shippers to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, where no such unfavorable state of affairs exists. Unless conditions change, apparently, Boston as a great centre of sea traffic is doomed...
...when the freight car was at last located, it was found that a trucking permit was necessary, since it was Sunday, before the cases could be moved. When this had been attended to and the equipment at last made ready, the rehearsal began...
...freight car that was scheduled to arrive in Boston at 7 yesterday morning missed connections, was saunted onto several side-lines, and finally lost, with the result that the sets and costumes coming from New York for the first Hasty Pudding dress rehearsal were not to be found at 11 when the rehearsal was to begin. Photographers from Boston and New York daily papers were all on hand at 11, but the scenery and costumes were with the wandering freight...
...Total freight tonnage carried by the road had increased 50% between...