Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their old Army flying jackets, darted about the coveys of DC-3 freighters and the smaller Piper Cubs, Cessnas and Beechcrafts scattered around the field. Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet. In a corner of the field, handlers coaxed a horse into a freight plane. Regularly, every minute or so, a plane took off or landed...
...that was chiefly notable for carrying Lincoln's funeral train in 1865. For years it carried little other traffic. Although the Monon's 541 miles of track tapped the rich Chicago and Ohio Valley areas, the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads carried the region's freight and passengers. In 1933 the Monon went into receivership. It all but stopped carrying passengers; they were a nuisance. It ran freight trains only when there was enough freight to fill them. Then the war brought an inescapable transfusion of freight traffic and a $12½ million surplus...
...William Barkley stood up to give his views. Said he: "If every organization in the United States . . . endorsed the bill I would still be against it ... it is vicious legislation." The talk was of railroads, said Barkley, but the bill applied also to water carriers, buses, trucks, pipelines and freight forwarders. It would "impose a transportation monopoly." Why not exempt U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Standard Oil and International Harvester...
More Support. Kansas' Clyde Martin Reed, sponsor of the bill, deprecated such notions. The bill's opponents had proceeded, "either wilfully or ignorantly, upon an erroneous basis. . . . Every experienced traffic man knows that a majority of freight rate changes, whether made by a bureau or in some other method or manner, are decreases. The shippers . . . have universally come 'to the support of this bill...
Good or bad, the bill posed a number of prime questions. Though it specifically excepted the state of Georgia's suit against Eastern railroads for discriminatory freight rates (TIME, April 9, 1945), many Senators thought that the Supreme Court would drop the case as a moot question, if the bill should become...