Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin-bound freight train puffed out of Frankfurt, loaded with meats and grains. The story of what happened to it is the story of zonal government in Germany...
Young, husky John Keeshin went to work driving a horse-drawn truck when he was 13. In the next 32 years, he founded and built Keeshin Freight Lines, Inc. into the biggest privately owned trucking company in the U.S., with 3,000 employes, 2,000 trucks and 17,000 miles of routes cobwebbing the East and Midwest. Last week husky Mr. Keeshin, now 45, stalked into a board of directors meeting. Said he bitterly: "I'm quitting. Why not liquidate the company? As long as the unions insist on jacking up wages and cutting down efficiency with featherbed rules...
...used his veteran's priority to buy a DPC-owned fleet of 14 surplus Conestoga twinengine cargo planes for $401,000 ($90,000 down). He promptly got most of his down payment back by selling six of them for a profit of $80,000. Then National Skyways Freight Corp. took...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Harold Evans Hartney, 57, combat commander (shot down four times ) of World War I's famed First Pursuit Group (Eddie Rickenbacker was a member), later a racing pilot, pioneer in freight-and-passenger flying, adviser to the CAA; of heart disease; in Washington...
Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo got on the mark for another senatorial filibuster (30 days if necessary), visualized himself as the savior of $250 million in public funds by killing a freight-rate bill. A succeeding vision: a bigger & better Capitol to be built with the $250 million. He was "ashamed," he said, of the present "old, dilapidated, dirty Capitol," insisted that Cuba's was better and that the county courthouse back home in Mississippi had Washington's beat for comfort and convenience...