Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually arrived in Chicago riding the rods of a freight. Having learned from hoboes that this was too risky a procedure from Chicago to New York, he bought a ticket, got to Manhattan with 6? left. By extraordinary luck he encountered a Whitman classmate, borrowed $75. Tutoring and writing a textbook on the side, he had $1,000 when summer came round again. Back he went to Yakima to marry pretty Mildred Riddle, a fellow teacher in Yakima whom he had often taken picnicking in an antique automobile. When they reached Manhattan they had precisely 35?. This time, however...
...came with sloops and schooners, and all the modern devices for safety on the waters. He saw the waterfront of Portland, a city set on an hill, and a commercial center of no mean import, with its huge grain elevators of the Grand Trunk, its docks full of freight steamers of grain and of and lumber, and its fleet of ferryboats plying out to the islands in Casco Bay. It was like a miniature New York...
...Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair. Typical sights: Chattanooga's Drum and Bugle Corps in old khaki trench uniforms, spattered with prefabricated mud; autos disguised as French locomotives and freight cars ("40 hommes, 8 chevaux") and Paris taxicabs; one-man bands; Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves with his Wife-Senator Dixie Bibb Graves; 30,000 paraders from Pennsylvania; 1,200 Legionnaires from Kentucky with dried tobacco sheaves; Maine's Crooner Rudy Vallée (aged...
...these and similar reasons railroad executives at a meeting in Washington of the Association of American Railroads decided to ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for a general boost of freight rates and passenger fares as soon as the I.C.C. settles the pending petition for higher rates for certain commodities. Reason: this has become the only solution visible to railroad men for the problem of zooming operating costs. Along the U. S. railroad right-of-way, signal after signal continued turning ominously...
...pomp was lavished on these foreign envoys. Housed in sleeping cars in a Nürnberg freight yard, they shared a crude drawing room, had to walk down the tracks for their baths. Only official recognition of their presence was a tea with Hitler at which the Führer moved among the tables, chatting with them. Night before envoys of the U. S., Britain and France arrived, toucan-beaked Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels gibed that democracies were "stupid cows going to the slaughter house...