Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strips, 43 radio ranges, 46 weather observation stations. There are 582 commercial airplanes registered within the Territory-there had been only 99 in 1940, 157 in 1945. More important, many are efficient, multiengined aircraft. The bush pilot is still making medicine with his light plane, still landing passengers and freight in improbable corners of the country. But the DC-3 and the DC-4 do the big business, droning unconcernedly over mountains which early flyers had crossed only with the aid of rabbits' feet and gilded baby shoes...
...coast and Fairbanks in the interior, is being completely reconstructed. By 1952 its roadbed will be rebuilt, its rails and ancient rolling stock will be replaced, its narrow cuts (in which 106 moose had fatal head-on collisions with locomotives last winter) will be widened, its capacity for freight and passengers increased eight to ten times...
...hundreds of small-town editorial writers. A classless paper, it is read on the commuter trains from swank Lake Forest, and on the dirty "El" cars taking workers to the stockyards. (The Colonel once banned foreign titles from his pages, still insists on simplified spelling, i.e., "frate" for freight...
...well over the 1,200-a-day quota for last year, when wheat rotted on the ground. But there is no guarantee that the roads will get the 1,600, as all are short of cars. Car production is still low. Manufacturers delivered an estimated 4,000 new freight cars last month, about half of them boxcars. But every month the railroads, run flat-wheeled during the war, have been forced to retire more than 5,000 worn-out cars. Production of enough cars to alleviate the shortage-10,000 a month-will probably not be reached until September...
...This week the Senate began to consider a bill to end sugar rationing immediately. But the Department of Agriculture has not committed itself on the bill. Its chief concern is to get housewives to buy sugar for canning now so that sugar shipments will not tie up freight cars needed to move the bumper wheat crop later...