Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift of William Jeffers, president of Father's railroad. But in all the 250-odd gifts and the bushel baskets of letters, and telegrams, nothing was so satisfactory-not even the fuzzy kangaroo-as the presents from his parents, which Nubbins had particularly asked for: the wooden freight train, the toy jeep, the candy-filled locomotive. "It was a Christmas," said his father, "that little boys dream...
...will carry passengers at the fantastically low direct cost of 1? per mile; freight, in an all-cargo design, at 5? per ton-mile...
...seasonal peak in freight traffic had the railroads hustling to prevent the tightest car supply in 20 years from developing into a serious car shortage. Car-loadings for the week of Oct. 21 numbered 905,941, unchanged from a year ago. But this year freight ton-miles are expected to hit an alltime high of 750 billion, up 3% over last year, and more than double 1939's ton-miles...
...this week the situation had undoubtedly been improved. A vast road-and-railroad communications system had been built up, and it would grow & grow. But until the Allies had Antwerp, where locomotives, railroad cars and other heavy freight could be poured ashore, troops on the line would have to get used to shortages...
...first stage of delivery. U.S. engineers have now rebuilt 1,500 miles of French railroads and 100 rail bridges which had been wrecked by pre-invasion bombing, by saboteurs or by the fleeing enemy. Much U.S. rolling stock has been put ashore, but 60% of the locomotives and freight cars are French, Italian, Dutch, Belgian and German. Some old U.S. freight cars left in France after the last war have been retrieved and put back to work...