Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamburg-American liner St. Louis sailed away from Cuba last week, returning to Germany with its unwanted freight, 907 Jewish refugees. For four days it had dawdled in the Straits of Florida and the Atlantic while refugee agencies desperately negotiated with the Cuban Government. Off the Florida coast at night its passengers stared long at the lights of Miami. After compelling the St. Louis to leave Havana harbor, President Federico Laredo Bru had offered a temporary haven on the Isle of Pines, pleasure spot and home of the Cuban national penitentiary, provided refugee agencies would post a $500 bond...
...Today there are less than 44,000 and some 42,000 of them were bought before 1929, 30,000 before 1920. Meanwhile, insolvent roads "economize" by spending four and five times the cost of a new locomotive in piecemeal repairs to hopelessly obsolescent engines, although new freight engines would work 75-125,000 miles a year instead of 30-40,000 miles as the old ones do, would bring operating savings great enough to pay for themselves in a few years. Particularly true is this of Diesel switchers (which use fuel only when actually switching, do not puff while waiting...
...done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which brought cattlemen fixed interstate freight rates...
...great foe of fliers, is no fun for railroaders either. One night last week fog was thick on the Pennsylvania R.R.'s tracks near Bradford, Ohio. An eastbound freight stopped at Bradford for coal. Another train, following too closely behind, rammed into it, flinging wreckage onto the adjoining track. On that track a fast fruit train, hauled by two locomotives, was booming along with an all-clear signal. It butted into the debris; a half-mile of cars slithered off the rails like a wounded snake. Three crew men were killed, four more badly hurt. It was the worst...
...Juan Trippe. He is president and co-founder (with his three brothers) of one of Mexico's most important native-owned airlines, the Compania Transportes Aéreos de Chiapas. Last year it carried approximately 17,000 passengers, 18,000 Ibs. of mail, 3,000,000 Ibs. of freight, made enough money to double its equipment. It now has 28 ships of a half-dozen makes, 14 pilots. Sarabia considers his airline worth about a million dollars...