Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the switchman, still handling1 eastbound traffic, saw a chance to prove his devotion. As a passenger train passed his tower, he threw a wrong switch, sent it plunging into a parked freight loaded with Red Army supplies and re-enforcements. Casualties: 18 killed, 32 seriously injured...
...Alamo Field last week, 50 men in coveralls scurried over, under, into, out of and around nine fat-bodied Curtiss Commando planes. They installed refrigeration equipment in some, heaters in others. On the silver sides of all nine, they painted the royal blue insignia of a brand-new air-freight enterprise: Slick Airways...
...year for hurrying. New York subway guards picked up 7,800 abandoned umbrellas, 54,517 other articles, ranging from roasts of beef to copies of Forever Amber. U.S. airlines carried more passengers and freight, flew more miles than ever before. The railroads broke all records, both for transporting passengers and leaving them behind in stations...
...where 1945 had left off-and in the same area. Only 16 nights before, only 64 miles to the north, the Seaboard's west coast Silver Meteor had knifed into cars of the northbound Sun Queen, killing six, injuring 62. Seventy-two hours later, a Southern Railway freight had piled up on the rear of a New Orleans-New York limited, killing three...
Speedy Haul. The first commercial all-freight flight across the Atlantic took off from LaGuardia Field for London with $41,000 worth of merchandise. The pioneering Pan American DC-4 hauled a 3,520-lb. cargo: 1,900 lbs. (1,000 meals) of frozen food; 225 lbs. of mink and Alaska lynx furs valued at $36,000; consumer staples, such as pipes, tobacco, fruit cake, fresh pineapple, clothing, cosmetics, books, stationery, radio equipment...