Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another big search for the missing boxes is now in progress. The Chinese are methodically checking freight stations all through the Peking area. The Marines, who presumably saw him last, are quizzing everyone remotely concerned...
...going to get what the picket shanty got." Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...
...there any money to be made on hand-to-mouth freight flying, without ample capital and nationwide offices to line up business. Saunie Gravely, a 22-year-old ex-gunnery instructor, had found that out. He and 40 other veterans in Newark had raised $40,000, formed Veterans' Air Express Co., Inc. After two months of flying everything they could lay their hands on, lobsters, penicillin, flowers, turkey, etc., they decided to try flying passengers...
...Many a freight and charter line hoped to grow into a full-fledged, regularly scheduled feeder line. But to get permission to fly a new route, airlines must prove to the Civil Aeronautics Board that the service is economically necessary, the company financially able to supply it. The process of proving it is long (a year or two) and expensive. Said one pilot: "I figure it will cost...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate...