Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of Havana's crowded harbor, the, massive crane that unloads the Seatrain stood stark and still. The Seatrain itself, a seagoing ferry that brings 105 loaded U.S. freight cars to Cuba weekly and returns them packed with Cuban freight, languished at its home berth in New Orleans. Cuba's belligerent dock workers, backed by the compliant Grau San Martin Government, had decided that the Seatrain was cutting them out of jobs...
...four more years Elyniak worked for farmers at Gretna, drew $80 a year plus 80 bu. of wheat and 40 bu. of barley. He bought a team of oxen, two cows, 30 chickens, a wagon and a plow, shipped them west to Edmonton in a freight car, then drove another 50 miles east to Chipman. There he settled with other Ukrainians, raised three sons and four daughters. The homesteading was rough, but not as hard as in the Ukraine...
...eastbound freight train had stopped on the main line with a broken air hose. Another freight, pounding east behind it, had crashed into its motionless bulk, knocked a locomotive and seven heavy-laden cars across the westbound tracks. Out of the night the Triangle raced at 70 miles an hour. Brief, bright showers of sparks gritted from desperately locked brakes. Then the Triangle hit the wreckage. Both its locomotives and three of its cars tumbled off the rails. A geyser of live steam shot up. Glass crashed, metal shrieked and groaned on metal. In the stillness which followed, the train...
...railroads last week got a $1,000,-000,000 Christmas present from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The present: a 17.6% increase in freight rates, effective...
...boost the roads got from ICC last June, was almost as much as the railroads had asked for in April. They had wanted a general 19.6% rate raise, enough to increase their annual revenues by $1 billion.' Since then the estimates of next year's freight traffic had increased. Now the railroads expect to gross the $1 billion with the 17.6% increase. If traffic holds up, and costs remain the same, the railroads expect to net $250,000,000 in 1947. (Without the increase, they estimated that they would lose...