Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every night last week, special freight trains pulled out of Tifton, Ga., and sped north over the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line roads. The lo-to-yo-car trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
Long Division. In Buffalo, a motorist wearied of waiting for a slow freight to pass, climbed out of his car, pulled a coupling that split the train in two, drove...
...Truman, warning the people of serious blows ahead, called it "a national disaster." Hundreds of factories closed; many hundreds more were about to shut down for lack of coal or materials. Partial paralysis was creeping over the rail lines. Belatedly, drastic measures were applied. The Government declared a rail freight and express embargo, effective May 10, on all shipments except food, fuel and a few other essentials. Most industries could no longer ship or receive materials. Rail lines were ordered to curtail passenger service by half, effective May 15. Several lines, close to the bottom of their coal piles, took...
...peacetime steel products, put Geneva in the front rank of steel producers. But U.S. Steel added a slight "if" to its bid: there would have to be reductions in Western rail rates on steel. Said Big Steel: "Any bidder on Geneva Steel sees a need for reduction in freight rates from Geneva to the Coast. The economic future of the plant rests on these reductions...
...Bondage. Even as the committee spoke, the underground was shifting its human freight out of the villages of eastern Europe. Operated by Haganah (Hebrew for "self-defense"), the movement is largely financed by funds collected...