Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since January 1, 1943, TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM have been cooperating with the War Production Board on conservation of paper. During the year 1945, these four publications of the TIME group are budgeted to use 73,000,000 lb. (1,450 freight carloads) less paper than in 1942. In view of resulting shortages of copies, please share your copy of TIME with your friends...
...three years after Pearl Harbor, the U.P. spent $278,000,000. It bought 2,270 new cars, 136 locomotives. It laid 1,680 miles of heavier rail to carry the oversize freight trains that Jeffers knew were on the way. Though one of the U.P.'s fondest boasts is that its roadbed is better laid and better kept than any other road's in the U.S., it rebuilt hundreds of miles of roadbed. For the steep grades over the Great Divide it developed the world's biggest locomotive...
...railroads had already performed a transportation miracle. By working men & equipment to the cracking point, U.S. railroads last year hauled 740 billion ton-miles of freight, more than twice the 1939 total. Passenger-miles trebled in the five years to 96 billion. The railroads had no choice. Part of this back-breaking traffic had been the 3,500,000 troops-and all the materiél needed to fight in Europe-that were shipped from East Coast ports. The railroads had done the improbable; now they must do the impossible. Miracle must now be piled on miracle. In the next...
...World War I, the U.P. was one of the few roads that the Federal Government made money on. After the Government took over, it paid U.P. $77,785,522 rent for the two years of operation, cleared $19,800,000 from freight & passengers...
...Freight cars rattled eastward across Ger many. Russian and Polish repatriates were packed in until there was no room to sit. Some, looking happy for cameramen, sunned themselves (see cut), waved at Red Army soldiers, ducked when the train crawled through a tunnel...