Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about $1,100,000,000). Only way to clean up this mess, he said, was for the Government to take over every mile of track in the country and 80% of the railroads' stock, try to put the roads on a paying basis by increasing freight rates...
...Hard-shelled Joe Ryan's inter-union wars threatened another serious strike before the week was out. His union served an ultimatum demanding jurisdiction over the contract loading of all railroad freight for lighterage about New York Harbor. The Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks which had controlled part of this work promptly countered with a set of demands upon the railroads, threatened a strike of 25,000 freight and express handlers, ticket sellers and railway station employes that would tie up railroad service in the whole New York City area. A serious strike depriving 7,000,000 people...
Grand Hose Knight, a job at least analogous to president, is Frank H. Ellis, a Pittsburgh filling station operator and treasurer of NAPR. Grand Knight Ellis, who at ten lost his right leg hopping a freight train, also owns a paint and feed business in Pittsburgh's South Side steel district, once ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Sipping a bottle of beer in his office last week he observed: "Knights of the Hose is a name that fully covers our business, and any Knight or future Knight can readily see that the serious and comic slants of our business...
...millions of Midwesterners the Great Lakes are a vacationland provided by Nature on a scale with the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. To U. S. industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports...
...necessity of shipping an enormous volume of freight in an eight-month navigation season has compelled not only efficiency at Great Lakes ports but economy in Great Lakes ship design. Distinctive Lakes craft, introduced in 1906, is the standard 600-ft. bulk freighter, which resembles nothing so much as a huge steam barge with a minimum of upper-works fore & aft, engines and smokestack so far aft as to seem astern...