Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herr Koenig knew that the Italian rifles must be returned to Italy? Director Seefehlner had arranged that carloads of the disputed weapons were to go back to Italy by Wiener-Neustadt. Wiener-Neustadt is but 20 mi. from Hungary. If the sealed freight cars containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish...
...civil wars which hung over Peking and the route to the Gobi, impeded him more than the extortionists. During one air raid he saved his life only by hiding under a freight car. A shell fragment struck within two inches of his face. He burnt his fingers pulling the red-hot steel from the ground. En route to & from the desert bandits occasionally shot at the diggers. But there were no casualties. The late J. McKenzie Young, who had charge of the motor cars, was once attacked while driving alone. He routed the assailants by guiding his car with...
...mucilage incensed all U. S. ink, paste and mucilage manufacturers. Bitter were the complaints of local retailers against the Army's system of post exchanges where merchandise was underpriced and untaxed. Railroaders flayed the War Department's barge line on the Mississippi as open larceny of their freight traffic. Musicians flayed the Army, Navy and Marine bands for performing without charge at nonofficial functions...
...Some of the burning tar fell on a gas tank 270 feet high, 150 feet in diameter. Houses crumpled like cards. Like a vast clay pigeon the top of the tank skimmed over the city and crashed on the railway tracks 2,500 feet away. Parts of a freight train were picked up seven miles away. There was not a whole pane of glass within five miles of Neunkirchen. An hour later when a filling station blew up it seemed no louder than a handclap...
...Last week the Soviet upped fares 35% .to discourage idle passenger travel, permit heavier freight movements. The rise came on top ot other increases that have boosted fares in some regions 300% above a year...