Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategy. Hundreds of thousands were out of work, and angry. Every day the strike lasted, more were thrown out of work. Hundreds of trains were shunted out of service. The thousands of citizens who had jammed postoffices with Christmas bundles to beat the Government's rail embargo on freight, parcel post and express shipments, raised their voices against Lewis...
Predicting a tremendous increase in passenger and freight aviation, he said that the coming age of air transportation might change the face of the country "as much as the Ford Model T changed it thirty years...
...supply of gas to domestic consumers.) Ford, Chrysler and Hudson used the Thanksgiving weekend as an excuse for temporary shutdowns. Unless the coal strike ended, 500,000 autoworkers would be out of work by Christmas. They would be out sooner if an embargo was clamped on all but essential freight...
...severe restriction is in effect on the dispatching of holiday gift packages to points outside the Boston postal district, according to officials of the U. S. Post Office and the Railway Express Agency. The curtailment is in accordance with yesterday's railway freight embarge, made necossary by the current coal strike...
...panic spread, the South's cotton patriots howled for the Government to do something about cotton as loudly as they had once howled to leave it alone. To Southern Congressmen, a free market was fine as long as prices were rising and consumers were paying the freight, intolerable when prices were falling. Cried Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas: The Commodity Credit Corp. should buy up a million bales at parity to 1) create an artificial shortage and 2) force up the price. Others demanded that OPA lift its 120-day limit on mill pricing of finished textiles, thus permit...