Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some months after V-E Day, when air-freight opened up, we began air mailing our Overseas edition from the U.S. to our loyal 3,077 British subscribers. Soon thereafter, British authorities raised our quota to 30,000 and let us fill it with copies of our Paris-printed edition for U.S. troops in Europe. Then finally, a fortnight ago, we began printing a full-sized, ad-carrying edition of TIME in Paris for delivery to civilian readers in France. England, and the Low Countries within 24 hours of its delivery date...
China needs credit-and lots of it-from the U.S. She hopes for a billion and a half, on long-range terms, from the World Bank. Beyond the financial helping hand, she needs a large share of the tremendous surplus property owned by the U.S. (particularly ships, trucks, locomotives, freight cars). Special Envoy Marshall pleaded last week for special priority for China...
...technical problem of sending cars through Chicago can be solved. Railroads have always sent freight cars through, sent many a troop train through during the war. The biggest problem has been finding the passenger traffic to make it pay. Before the war, too few transcontinental passengers a day wanted to travel through Chicago without stopping. Now, under Young's needling, railroads have found that traffic has increased enough...
...Fergus Motors will not get rich on Standards. It must pay ?300 ($1,200) for the cars in England, a 10% import duty and a 7% federal tax, besides freight...
...late Colonel Edmund W. Starling (of the Kentucky colonels) might have spent a humdrum life in the South, stalking train robbers, pulling bums out of freight cars and convoying precious cargoes for the railway express company which he served as a detective. But his employers suggested cutting his pay to meet competition from parcel post. So young Starling flitted to the U.S. Secret Service...