Word: freighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...airlines as he was hardheaded to some of his associates. The big airlines had fought him because of his encouragement of small airline operators (many of them ex-Air Force pilots) in their development of air cargo service on unscheduled lines (about 80% of all U.S. air freight is handled by nonscheduled lines). His pressure on the big operators to adopt new safety measures had cost them money. This week, after he was out, came a safety report which might cost them more. Over Chairman Landis' signature, the President's Air Safety Board put the onus of safety...
...freight overflows the docks, the warehouses, runs out into the streets and public parks. Alongside the Pargue Infantil are stacked weather-beaten wood cases containing tractors, electrical transformers, construction steel, concrete mixers. Up past the cathedral on the road to Cali stands a broken-down road grader, tires deflated, blue-flowered vines curling around its steering wheel...
...volume) than the U.S. shipped abroad in the last 15 months. Iron & steel (3,104,000 metric tons) totaled only 37% of the last 15 months' exports; fuel was 80%; the $378,200,000 worth of machinery and equipment was only 14% and the 87,000 trucks and freight cars were less than a fourth of the 396,000 shipped in the last year and a quarter. ERP called for 43,250,000 metric tons of coal compared to the 85,593,000 the U.S. had shipped in the last 15-month period. Some of the raw materials would...
...Motors' Electro-Motive Division, which last week got an $11,000,000 chunk of the Central order (the rest went to American Locomotive and Fairbanks, Morse). G.M. was ahead in diesel locomotives chiefly because it was the first to adapt the heavy diesel engine effectively to passenger and freight locomotives...
...greatest selling obstacle has been the railroads' reluctance to hurt their best customers-the coal companies (35% of all freight tonnage is coal). The Santa Fe, with more diesel units than any other road (542), is well out of the coal country. (The Central has 334 diesel units.) Though diesels still comprise only 10% of all locomotives, they have already begun to invade coal roads like the Pennsylvania, which bought more diesels than any other road this year...