Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's Greenwich (Conn.) Theater run, Tallulah Bankhead got a cool $2,500; first-night orchestra seats at $4.80 per helped pay the freight...
Nebraska's G.O.P. candidate for governor was a World War II veteran with an impressive Scandinavian name: Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson. As a lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Forces, 42-year-old Val Peterson spent 24 months in the CBI Theater, supervised air-freight movements over the Hump into China. But unlike many other veteran candidates, he was no newcomer to state politics, nor did he wave the bloody shirt...
...freight business, crowded with weak chicks, an eagle appeared last week. American Airlines Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith announced that American intended to operate "an effective nonscheduled air cargo service." Its "effectiveness" caused shivers to 2,730 new small operators, many of whom are veterans flying surplus planes. They now charge an average of 20? a ton mile. American plans to carry cargo at rates ranging from 18? down to the unheard-of low of 11? a ton mile for big shipments on long hauls...
Airmen doubted whether American itself could make any money carrying freight at 11? a ton mile. American claimed it could, if it got enough business. But most airmen thought that American was less interested in profits now than in killing off competition...
...more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany, it worked. Thorez presided at the opening of the glassworks and Albi greeted him as its savior. His fame spread from Albi through the Department of Tarn. Result: once-conservative Tarn was almost evenly divided in last month's referendum vote...