Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railroads - added passenger traffic plus savings resulting from freight traffic operations would represent the equivalent of a total increased revenue of at least $100,000,000 per year...
Biggest fish to slip through the Nazi frontier net (in a sealed freight car) was Vojta Benes, brother of ex-President Eduard Benes. Brother Vojta brought some blood-curdling tales from home, where he has been in hiding since Nazis took over...
Such signs, splashed on freight cars, railroad stations and blank walls, warn visitors to North Carolina of their approach to super-collegiate Duke University. Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
Coal: From 2,000,000 tons a week early in May production rose to 6,000,000 'cons at the end of the month, but coal freight shipments recovered to only 84% of the March level. After a few days of stocking up by utilities and other strike-hit consumers the after-strike boomlet fell off. Meanwhile, anthracite production slumped back into its customary stagnation...
...organized to prevent suicides. The last slim hope of the refugees was to find a haven in the Old World. The Nazi Government, needled by the danger of mass suicide on the St. Louis, and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees expect to find a refuge this week for her freight in Britain, France, Belgium or The Netherlands...