Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Export Airlines flying boat took off from New York's LaGuardia field with a capacity load of freight and passengers. The huge, 30-ton, four-motored ship landed in Ireland 15 hr. 51 min. later. Average speed : 211 m.p.h. The flight clipped 26 min. from the previous west-east record. Pan American has predicted even faster time of 13 hr. 48 min. to London (TIME, Sept. 6). Use of land planes may lower even this fancy figure...
...mile-long Moffat Tunnel the radio conked out. But otherwise the first two-way FM radio communication link between engine and caboose was a success. It was tested last week on a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad heavy freight, making a 1,140-mile round trip between Denver and Salt Lake City...
...plot is almost unwound before the film gets around to the actual passage to Marseille. We can't remember having heard the story before: it's about a French freighter carrying a valuable shipment of nickel, and also carrying fascists and democrats who struggle for control of the freight...
Since January 1, 1943, TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM have been cooperating with the War Production Board on conservation of paper. During the year 1944, these four publications will use 73,000,000 lb. (1,450 freight carloads) less paper than in 1942. In view of resulting shortages of copies, please share your copy of TIME with your friends...
...ICCommissioner he gained the gratitude of the railroads by helping them streamline the archaic regulations governing freight routings. Last month, aware of the increasing threat of the manpower shortage to the railroads, he recommended that all railroad employes now in the Army but not overseas be demobilized and returned to their jobs...