Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion of electrical plants, freight cars, and equipment for petroleum refining, steel plants, mining and agriculture in 1948, a total of $3.3 billion in the next four years...
Thirdly, the 16 nations would cooperate more closely by reducing trade barriers, swapping manpower, planning for common sources of electric power, standardizing equipment, pooling freight cars. In other words, the Paris Plan contemplated an economically unified Europe...
Texas had never seen anything like the $1,500,000 worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will go on show at next week's State Fair. Among the 30 paintings were works by Titian, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Goya, Rubens and El Greco. But Dallas Museum Director Jerry Bywaters counted on a lesser masterpiece to reach the heart of Texas: Rosa Bonheur's sun-spangled Horse Fair, whose picturebook realism and 8-by-16-ft. grandeur make it a crowd favorite...
Young was quite prepared for the attacks of such opponents as the Virginian Railway, a C. & 0. competitor in the coal-hauling business; of old enemies in the Nickel Plate, whose control he had given up; and of the Chrysler Corp., which said that it feared higher freight rates for automobiles because of less railroad competition. But Young was not prepared for a sharp heel in the teeth from the bride-to-be herself...
...witness against Young, the Virginian called two officials of the New York Central. Said Jess P. Patterson, Central's general freight traffic manager: "I did not like the reference to a trial marriage . . . that kind of marriage ends in disaster. . . . Such a merger is not a good thing for the Central." Did W. F. Place, Central's vice president in charge of finance, think the marriage would improve Central's credit standing? Said he tersely: "No." Young's flustered counsel hastily asked for a recess. At week's end, as ICC took the case under...