Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plough-handles." 1886-1936 "At the annual meeting in 1886, Mr. Coolidge, then Treasurer, called your attention to the trend of [the cotton] industry southward. In 1889, 1891, 1896 and 1897 he stressed the same idea, pointing out the South's advantages in the low cost of labor, freight and taxes, and in few restraining laws. . . , "Despite attractive opportunities to liquidate, the management has carried or against what to some may seem sounder judgment and advice. ... No management is competent to operate a plant like this, handicapped with existing wage differentials. No management could by any ingenuity overcome...
...different kind of actor truck. A second sedan, pulling a mall trailer, brought up the rear. At the heel of the first truck was a stocky young-looking man in a state of high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin 'as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept. 2), he was leading out his first caravan in a test run from Chicago to Los Angeles in five days, Los Angeles to Manhattan in eight...
...hours in the small trailer. Only stops were for food, gas & oil, examination of permits at each state line. Ten hours were lost in such formalities. So smoothly did everything go that the caravan rolled into Los Angeles in four and a half days, beat the best railroad freight schedule by 46 hours. On hand to greet it was Truckman Keeshin. Flying out at the last minute, he was enormously pleased to spy his gaudy trucks, 8,000 ft. below, cruising through Southern California...
...went without a hitch, except for an arrest in New Mexico for overloading, a 30-min. delay near Cleveland for a flat tire The caravan shouldered on through blizzards, finally waddled into Manhattan last week in seven days, beating its own schedule by 24 hours, the best railroad freight schedule by 72 hours...
...handling coal, which is 90% of the Virginian's freight tonnage, the road has the most efficient equipment developed. Its steam locomotives are among the world's biggest, its electric locomotives on the 134 miles of electrified line over the hump of the Alleghenies are the world's most powerful. At its docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest...