Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirds of all the merchandise freight that enters and leaves Manhattan is carried by trucks. After studying this amazing statistic, and pondering the truck-jammed, gasoline-smelling streets of Manhattan, the Port of New York Authority announced plans for a $2,500,000 Union Motor Truck Terminal...
...Terminal, covering a solid city block, will be built near the Manhattan end of the Holland Tunnel as soon as construction materials are available. It will be designed to handle as much as 2,000 tons of cargo a day. Two important advantages : 1) quick interchange of freight between over-the-road trucks and local delivery; 2) a wide, flat roof capable of parking 128 truck-trailers that otherwise would block narrow city streets between trips...
Plane v. Bicycle. Kluge was in a pretty fix. His supply lines had been bomb-ravaged (in three days more than 600 locomotives, nearly 7,000 freight cars had been destroyed). Reinforcements were delayed (one unit bicycled nine days to reach the front...
Still Sliding. Best example was rails. The carriers have set new freight-passenger records month after month this year-but profits have continued to slide. Southern Pacific's net slumped to $23,034,139 v. $42,550,951 in the first six months last year. Baltimore & Ohio did little better, with $12,067,993 v. $21,813,380. Pennsylvania was a standout among the big roads: profits rose to $51,869,894 v. $43,454,103. These gloomy half-year figures amply buttressed the Interstate Commerce Commission estimate that the net profits of all Class-1 railroads this year...
...first rickety tracks followed the old Santa Fe wagon and cattle trail, west from Topeka through Council Grove, Dodge City, across the muddy Arkansas River and into New Mexico. There were few passengers and not much freight until the West grew. But the West grew. And the West is still growing. Railroader Gur ley expects the Santa Fe to keep up with...