Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Day Major George E. Preddy Jr., son of a freight conductor and top U.S. ace in the European Theater, was shot down by his own comrades. Shy, stocky George Preddy, P-51 fighter pilot, had 25½ enemy planes to his credit (plus five destroyed on the ground) when he climbed into the skies over Belgium that day and tangled with two German fighters. He knocked them both down and took off after a Focke-Wulf 190. U.S. troops on the ground opened up with ack-ack, trying to get the 190. Instead they shot down 25-year...
...Cowie Musician. Harry Magnuson has twice gone into ecstasies over the railroad recording. Company 3 waits with bated breath for a hearing. Bob Lang claims to have a better imitation of that head-on collision on the New Haven line. On his report Fritzy Arsulich advises converting all freight cars into transport planes for complete service...
...freight cars destroyed, 1,574 damaged...
Radio cars patrolling the roads and armed men searching freight trains by week's end had found nothing of the other 19 escaped prisoners. Unless they had help from the outside, the vanished prisoners (twelve of them Nazi officers) faced nearly 200 miles of trudging across barren cactus-studded desert to reach the Mexican border. Veteran Arizona sheriff's deputies and U.S. border patrolmen settled down to patient, poker-faced waiting...
...rise is typical of the railroads' wartime boom. The stream of freight to Southern industries and troops to & from Southern camps boosted L. & N.'s gross from $88 million in 1939 to $178 million for the first ten months of 1944. Net profits this year should run well over $15 million, double those of five years...