Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often as not he works into his painting some dramatic animal-like machine like the one this week. They are almost his trademark today; perhaps you remember the flying freight-cars behind Air Transport's General George-the sea serpent submarines around Nazi Admiral Doenitz-or the pistol-pointing battleship behind smirking Admiral Nagano of the Japanese Navy...
...fabulous overproduction that the whole U.S. was practically walking on eggs. The War Food Administration, which had been frantically storing eggs everywhere but in their desks, was thoroughly alarmed. In May the happy hens set a new production record of 6,704,000,000 eggs. In 1,400 freight cars on Midwestern sidings last week were stacked 25,000,000 dozen eggs, getting more dubious...
...week's end egg processors had taken more than half the 1,400 freight cars off WFA's hands. When it gets rid of the rest, WFA says the crisis will be past. By then the seasonal egg slump will have begun, and WFA hopes the hens will observe...
Capsule Week. The week's operations were a capsule history of the whole air war on Germany. Industries, aircraft plants, airfields, synthetic oil plants, coastal installations, railway junctions and freight yards were combed over, in attacks from the Channel to the far Baltic coast...
Rails Down. On the downward side, the railroads continued the slide that they started late last year. They are taking in more money but lower freight rates, taxes and higher wages leave less & less. Southern Pacific rolled up $21,685,247 in last year's first quarter, saw its profits plummet to $11,445,893 in this. Smaller roads fared no better. Pere Marquette tumbled from...