Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exports. Since 1935, with the coffee market glutted, she has disposed of her crop largely by barter with Germany, getting textiles, hardware in return. Last week the 13,173-sq. mi. nation, the size of New Jersey and Connecticut, decided she needed airplanes for training purposes, for ferrying army freight over her mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than by a swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send $200,000 worth of her $9,000,000 crop; Italy, in return, will ship...
...granted a sop 5.3% rise in freight rates to U. S. railroads...
...take it from me that I have no precise instructions from the President," he confided. "You can't expect me to develop into a statesman overnight. . . . By 1940 I believe there will be regular passenger and freight airlines across the Atlantic, and I would be willing to be the first passenger myself. . . . Right now the average American isn't as interested in foreign affairs as he is in how he's going to eat and whether his insurance is good. Some, maybe, even are more interested in how Casey Stengel's Boston Bees are going...
...friends of Trotsky occupied until a few months ago towering positions from which they could and did cause most of any unfortunate conditions which may exist now in the Soviet Union. Among innumerable specific disasters charged up to Trotsky & Co. is the wreck at Volochaevsk of a military freight train...
...drafted after the Morro Castle fire in 1934 to jack up, the marine inspection service to prevent sea disasters, made a personal inspection of the fire-damaged Berengaria, refused a passenger certificate. Cunard White Star debarked its 319 remaining passengers, angrily sailed its ship away with 650 personnel, mail, freight. Though the fires were labeled "mysterious" and sabotage was hinted, it seemed possible because of her age that defective electric wiring caused the blazes. Said blunt Captain Fried, "I didn't believe she was safe for passengers. . . . She has had two fires recently. Go look at the third class...