Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denouncing commercial treaties between France and Britain signed in 1882 and 1926 she fired a mighty salvo which, however, will not hit its target until three months hence. Long have these particular treaties been under attack by French shipping interests, as they gave Britain marked advantages in carrying freight between France and her colonies...
When Harold G. Moulton of the Brookings Institute, the most impartial and intelligent of the international investigating bodies, published his report, he came to several significant conclusions. In the first place, he pointed out that it would be cheaper to build three double track freight railroads than to develop the St. Lawrence so that ocean vessels could navigate it. He showed that the customary reckoning between railroad rates and canal rates is utterly false, in that the first puts all the costs, including the overhead, on the shipper, whereas the second places only the actual transpiration charge on the shipper...
...went out of commission in 1933 set an all-time record. Until 1917 the annual total of railroad abandoned was so small that no one bothered to keep records. Longest section abandoned last year was 72 mi. of the Southern Pacific between Cochise and Commonwealth, Ariz. Both passenger and freight traffic had nearly vanished with no hint of revival. Second largest was an entire railroad-the 56-mi. San Joaquin & Eastern running from El Prado to Cascade, Calif. Built to supply a utility construction project, it had outlived its usefulness and the area was well served by big buses...
...domestic industrial use and one for a Brazilian cement company which was built by American Locomotive Co. in its Canadian shops. Last year they got orders for 17-twelve for domestic railroads, four for industrial use, one for the Philippine Railway. In 1929 the railroads ordered 111,000 freight cars. In 1932 the car builders got orders for about 350, last year 942. And in those two years the railroads built only 2,300 in their own shops. In 1929 the railroads ordered 2.303 passenger cars, last year six. But since the first of 1934, New York, Chicago & St. Louis...
...outraged parents put him in a stricter religious school he ran away. A book called Do Not Go to America decided him to emigrate to the U. S. Landed there at 14 without knowing a word of English, he went to the hardest school of all: dug ditches, loaded freight, welded metals, wove textiles, swept floors, waited on tables. He learned to read English, to write. Editor Henry Louis Mencken encouraged him. Adamic wrote a history of U. S. labor troubles (Dynamite), a book about his U. S. experiences (Laughing in the Jungle). Now 34, with his last book chosen...