Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carrell later said he could find no evidence to support this theory. Sheriff Blair accused disgruntled "left wing" union miners for the fatal ambush. Evarts' Chief of Police Asa Cusick insisted the deputy sheriffs guarding the mines were really to blame. The mine operators ingenuously pointed to "adverse freight rates" as the ultimate cause of trouble...
...heroic Water Front Fighters the mobilized men will be used to speed up transport on Russia's inland waterways, now ice-free for the short, hectic summer season (May through August). According to the Commissariat of Labor 71,000,000 tons more freight must be carried by the rivers this year than last, an increase...
Recently all ex-railwaymen were hustled off to the Railway Fighting Front. Mobilized men are given tickets to the particular front on which they will fight freight and passengers, receive liberal fighting wages. While they are away from home the State "guarantees the family domicile...
...Ford freight plane, powered by a single 600-h. p. water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engine. Except for the long snout-like motor and four-bladed propeller, the ship bears many outward resemblances to the tri-motored Ford transport...
...Loadings remain smaller than at any time since 1921, but the end of March showed an unexpected, unusual increase. Nevertheless, totals remain 15% below 1930. 22% below 1929, and the first 75 railroads to issue February reports showed a 53% drop in operating income. New freight cars ordered during March came to but 2,166 against 4,464 a year ago, while only eight locomotives were ordered against 43 last year. But orders for rails totalled 14,850 tons against...