Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
High on George Marshall's priority list was the problem of Western Germany. If trade with the British and American zones can be restored, there will be more coal for France (which needs coal even more than dollars), more freight for the Dutch canals and Belgian railways, more prosperity-and fewer fire alarms-for Western Europe in general...
...Society, Architect Charles C. Platt: "It seems to me simply slabs turned up and slabs lying on their belly, with no unity of composition. . . . A diabolical dream. . . ." Cried Perry Coke Smith, of the American Institute of Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office building that narrow can be efficiently done." Engineer Max Foley, president of the New York Building Congress, was a little kinder. "There must be something in that darn thing," said he, "that I don't understand...
...South & West were jubilant. Still pending were suits brought by Georgia's ex-Governor Ellis Arnall and the Department of Justice, which would try to narrow the gap between North & South still more. The ICC was planning for the day when every type of freight would move at a standard mile-for-mile rate everywhere in the U.S. When that day came, the effects on the economy of the U.S. would be incalculable...
...Post stand out on the cover, and the words Saturday-Evening seem almost whispered. (The accent is the same in the radio plugs and the Post's smart promotion ads.) The success stories changed: "Today," Hibbs says, "we'd rather talk about the second mate on a freight boat than the captain of the America...