Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't exactly handsome; he was more like a heavy-duty freight train. A wise horse, he exerted himself no more than necessary. He never bothered to break a record unless it took record time to win; he was content to win his races by a neck, or a nose. But even a great gelding like Armed, smart in pacing himself, can run down. Five months ago, after winning eleven races and $288,725 in one season, he was pulled off the track and given a rest...
...Four days after installation of the ''foolproof" traffic control system was proudly announced to the press last winter, it failed to function, sent a freight head-on into a passenger train, killing a fireman. The Rio Grande has had no other fatality since McCarthy took over...
...detail had been spared to make their trip a success, no chance overlooked to display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets...
...Thus, by mansweat and makeshift, on schedule in mid-1946, the first through train in eight years made the Canton-Hankow run. By November, Director Tu had three expresses going each week. Now he has one daily leaving both north and south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted...
This week Scotto was still trying to raise money, but the singers had given up hope of doing any opera in the U.S. They were rehearsing a one-night benefit for themselves to pay their way home. Somebody had told them they could get passage cheap on a freight boat out of Baltimore...