Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy escort to carry out scientific experiments on Canada's Melville Island, without so much as by-your-leave. Where is your respect for the sovereignty of others. . . ?" ¶"[Your] Office of War Transportation in Washington banned shipment of American coal into Canada . . . in a dispute over unreturned freight cars. ... [It was] a picayune incident which reflects a state of mind...
...Freight Handler ; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...
Supposedly, the freight-car shortage had been solved last February. At that time, car builders, steelmakers, railmen and the Office of Defense Transportation agreed on a program to turn out more cars (rising to 10,000 a month by September), and thus solve the shortage once & for all. That program, said Iron Age, "is shot to pieces...
...cars, and in September, 7,597. Hardly anyone expected that the figure would go any higher for the last three months of this year. As the railroads were sending 6,500 cars a month to the junk yards, the U.S. was barely making more cars than it lost. Though freight traffic is up 80% over 1940, U.S. railroads now have about the same number of freight cars (2,000,000-odd) as they had then. Everybody concerned pointed the blame at the other fellow...
Green Light. To keep the nation's railroads "in a reasonably healthy condition," the Interstate Commerce Commission granted their request for an emergency increase of 10% in freight rates. Exceptions on coal, coke and iron ore rates reduced the overall increase to 8.9%. Estimated annual increase in shippers' bills: $700 million...