Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems perfectly natural that advertising and not a license fee [as in England] should 'pay the freight' . . . when it comes to broadcasting."-William S. Paley, president of Columbia Broadcasting System...
...first cause of the accident." The "lone criminal" was a cobbler named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor of the situation recalled that the cobbler's name was similar to the Russian word meaning gay (Vyesioliy) that when Russians say "drunk as a cobbler" they mean very drunk...
...only forbidding them from accepting foreign securities. A sample case: a "sick" railroad comes before R. F. C. for help; it must meet a $40,000,000 bond issue within the month or go into receivership; the Railroad Credit Corp. has advanced it $15,000,000 from the increased freight rate pool and taken its last shaky collateral. Will R. F. C. let it have $25,000,000 on nothing more than its promise to pay? How R. F. C. directors answer that question and others like it will depend in large measure the success or failure...
...McKeesport, Pa. He stayed over night at Columbus, Ohio. The second day winds up to 100 m. p. h. forced him to hedgehop past Indianapolis and Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. When he landed there near midnight he learned that he was no longer a savior, only a freight deliverer. Patten Levings had died. Miss Hilliard was in no great need of oxygen relief. Next day he proceeded to Tucson, delivered his anticlimax...
...Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods, bore down from the opposite direction. The wounded could not move. The freight could not stop...