Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last summer's drought gratefully set their cattle to pasture in fields that had stayed green all winter long. Dutch bargemen poled happily along canals that were free of January ice for the first time since 1900. With the canals absorbing some 60% of the country's freight traffic, hard-pressed Dutch railroads were breathing easy. In Italy, where the fragrant mimosa had flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent their plows deep into soft, moist earth. "Now that...
...three hours with Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman to work out their plan. The steelmen agreed to set aside up to 10% of the industry's production and see that the steel reached industries designated by Harriman. At the start, the steel will go to four industries-freight cars, oil refinery equipment, farm machinery and low-cost housing-where greater production is needed to break other shortages...
...attention to the smallest business, plus a special brand of California civic spirit, has made the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce one of the most successful forces of its kind in the world. Last week, it totted up its achievements for the past year. It had 1) helped get freight-rate reductions on steel from Geneva, Utah; 2) promoted a $1 billion state highway program with special benefits for Los Angeles; and 3) persuaded 200 new enterprises, with about 7,800 new jobs, to settle in the city. (The cost to the Chamber was only...
Durable Boom. The Federal Reserve Board reported that its index of industrial production dropped slightly from a postwar peak of 192 in November to 191 in December. Despite the general decline, however, durable goods continued to advance; steel, autos, and freight cars reached new peaks...
...convening Legionnaires but more than Doctors of Divinity. They listened to learned lectures on everything from "Are Basic Needs Ultimate?"* to "What is a Virgula in Virgulate Cercariae?† When they went home to their various campuses and laboratories, they took with them, like the ships of Tarshish, a freight of sound scientific gold & silver - along with a few peacocks and apes...