Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, tidying up (by proxy: he is in England) his Dutch Branch ranch near Fort Worth, shipped eight Arabian horses (one stallion, four brood mares, three colts) to his bride in California, Cinemactress Faye Emerson. The shipment went by rail freight...
...their overloaded lines, the roads had done more than their usual best to clear the tracks. But main-line trains slowed to a crawl: the crack Twentieth Century Limited was ten and a half hours late on one scheduled run of 17 hours from Chicago to New York City. Freight was delayed and congestion grew faster than it could be relieved...
Finally in many a busy freight yard traffic came to a stop while trainmen groped for switches beneath snowdrifts. Then the nation was in serious trouble. Two hundred thousand freight cars were tied up in the East by one of the worst transportation crises on record...
Half the class was crestfallen when neither Keith (C.I.O.) Richards nor Irv Wellings could pick a R.R. freight, car incident from their vast storehouse of experience. Things are tough all over. Yet Jack Trumbauer can still have girl friends up from the City by the pairs. Whata...
Deliberately, Taub left transportation from the program, to be planned separately. But the industrial program provides for part of the equipment needed to expand transportation in China. The plan includes cement plants, locomotive and freight-car shops, and factories to make earth-moving equipment. It also plans to locate many industries at Jap-held centers like Peiping and Tientsin...