Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineering. He pointed out to the Chamber of Commerce in Washington that there are three good reasons why transcontinental transport planes will never have to fly much higher: 1) the higher they fly, the more oxygen and pressure equipment is necessary, which subtracts from potential payload (passengers and freight); 2) the overwhelming majority of U. S. passenger business is in short hauls, for which "substratosphere" flight is useless, since the time used for climbing and gliding eats up what is saved by high flight; 3) because there is little wind in the substratosphere and because prevailing winds at lower levels...
...Like a kangaroo's pouch, DC-4's large belly compartment will enable the plane to carry 6,500 pounds of freight. This is a delight to the airlines, for a 200-lb. transcontinental passenger brings them no more revenue than 200 pounds of air express, and mailbags eat no sandwiches...
...even this sturdy son of Hard Tack would not have enjoyed crosscountry travel 25 years ago, when most thoroughbreds were shipped in boxcars attached to slow freight trains. Today horses travel in specially built, steam-heated horse cars attached to first-class passenger trains, have all the comforts of their home stables...
...live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...
Most railroad officials, however, feel that solution of the railroad crisis is not a question of complicated legislation but a simple issue of increasing income or reducing expenditures. The former was ruled out when ICC last March refused to raise freight rates more than 5.3%. So last week the Association of American Railroads, meeting 100-strong in Chicago, took the Splawn report at face value, voted to cut railway wages 15% as of July I. Estimated saving: $250,000,000 a year...