Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight cars were of heavy steel except the third from the rear, an oldfashioned wooden coach full of Binghamton commuters and Erie workers going home to Susquehanna, Pa. Near the Binghamton city line No. 8 was stopped by a red block signal while just ahead a freight backed into a siding to clear the main line. No. 8's flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie...
...Highland, N. Y. Late that evening President Roosevelt, crossing the Mid-Hudson Bridge from his Hyde Park estate, boarded the train and it sped down the river to Weehawken. In the dead of night, under heavy police escort, the five Pullmans threaded their rumbly way through mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey City and at dawn the sleeping President was rolling through Washington, on across the Potomac and down a Southern Ry. branch line...
Normally at the harvest season East Prussia imports laborers from adjoining Poland. This year 24,000 Prussian unemployed have been bundled into trains, shipped across the Polish Corridor in freight cars of the German State Railways, and put to work in East Prussia. Making much of this achievement Premier Göring has encouraged Berlin newspapers to print stories about how he and his protege, Governor Erich Koch of East Prussia, have there "performed the miracle of ending unemployment...
...tickets, but must get a special permit ("which will only be issued for very good reasons") from the Bureau if they wished to spend more than 200 marks booking passage on a foreign ship. Since no trans-Atlantic passage can be bought for such a sum (except on a freight boat), this German order amounted to a boycott of U. S. and other foreign steamship companies serving Germany On the Berlin Stock Exchange shares of North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American bounded upward. "Maritime Adviser" Helfferich, board chairman of both lines, beamed, repeated his favorite slogan, "The spirit of Adolf...
Died. Dr. William Maddox, president of Rockford College, onetime (1925-26) president of the Federation of Illinois Colleges; and Alfred O. Wilgeroth, head of the college's music department; when their automobile was struck by a freight train; near Rockford...