Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that though obsolescence is a matter of fact when the purchaser has money, it is a matter of opinion when he has not. The railroads were expected to lose more money in 1935 than they had lost in 1934. They still had an excess supply of locomotives and freight cars, and Railway Age estimated a 1935 production of only 100 locomotives. To this traders retorted that rail equipment stocks were still underpriced, that even a small equipment expenditure by a railroad would be big income for an equipment company. No other group of securities offered such an extraordinary gap between...
...offices in all big U. S. cities, regulates the flow of fruit to market, maintains research laboratories, owns lumber mills (boxes), operates orange and lemon processing plants (oils and extracts), promotes the interests of the industry in general, California's in particular. It works constantly for reductions in freight rates, which, with refrigeration, represent about one-third of the wholesale value of California citrus. But most notable achievement has been to make orange juice at breakfast a national institution...
...THESE REPORTS ARE UNTRUE THE POINT OF VIEW OF GERMANY CONCERNING NEUTRALITY AND NONPARTICIPATION IN SANCTIONS HAS BEEN IN NO SENSE MODIFIED." "Resist!" Two days later a solid trainload of German coal clattered over the Alps, cheered Italians by arriving in their midst with Nazi exhortations chalked on the freight cars in German and Italian: "Resist! Resist! Resist!'' At Berlin the neutrality policy of the Realmleader was said by his aides to be approximately that of President Roosevelt and absolutely distinct from the League of Nations. Since she is rearming herself as rapidly as possible, Germany...
...Cleveland, on his 60th wedding anniversary, William W. Britton, 78, recalled that before his marriage: "I used to pass Sarah's house every day on the railroad. She lived one block from the tracks and I could hop off the front of the freight train, sprint that block, snatch a kiss and then catch the rear end of the train. Used to do it all the time but I had to move fast. I met Sarah at a train wreck. I crawled out from underneath a pile of tank cars and saw her when she walked down to look...
Negro Oze Edward Simmons, son of a Fort Worth janitor, arrived at the University of Iowa on a freight train, enrolled in the class of 1937, worked his way by washing cars. As a freshman, he ran through the entire Iowa varsity six times in one afternoon of football practice. As a sophomore, he was the star of an Iowa team that sometimes gave him half-hearted support. Last week, speedy, swivel-hipped, elusive Oze Simmons snaked through Illinois for a 71-yd. run & touchdown in the second period. Captain Dick Crayne made two more in the last, kept Iowa...