Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backwoods" business? Ever been down in this country? Does New Orleans and the Mardi Gras mean anything? How about Dallas and the Texas' Centennial? I'm not going to give you any statistics but you can read. The L. & A. Lines link these two principal cities and freight service via the "backwoods" railroad, New Orleans to Dallas, is second morning...
...Shipping peers such as Lord Essendon of Furness, Cunard White Star and 27 other lines, expostulated in vain last week against the Government's announced intention to decrease or abolish British shipping subsidies as soon as mounting freight rates equal or surpass the rates...
...Truck Show is held in Newark because Newark is the nation's greatest highway freight centre, because Jack Winchester wants it there and because Newark's vast municipal Center Market Building can be rented cheap. On its two dank floors last week gleamed and glistened a collection of trucks, bodies, trailers, engines and accessories from 60 leading U. S. manufacturers. As in the Automobile Show, the exhibits included gadgets, displays, sections of engines, cinema demonstrations. Unlike the Automobile Show, the Truck Show's exhibits were aimed not at the general public but at the comparative few whose...
...last words in trucks this year are streamlining, lightness, safety and C. O. E. (cab over engine). By compressing the front of a truck so the driver sits directly over the engine, the maker gains numerous advantages: 1) better teardrop streamlining; 2) equal freight capacity with considerably shorter wheelbase, which makes driving and parking easier; 3) better load distribution, so that the front wheels carry as much weight as the rear wheels. Practically all truck makers have plumped for C. O. E. Profiting by the experience of automobile makers who rushed too fast into streamlining, most truck makers have adopted...
...over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were 732,005 trucks. Said Truckman Winchester last week: "This year sales should run 15% to 20% higher, depending largely on the course that local legislation takes in restricting highway freight traffic...