Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caused by a historic decision of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Last week, CAB gave the two big nonscheduled cargo airlines permission to fly two transcontinental scheduled air-freight routes, the first in the U.S. CAB's certificates will permit them to fly on regular, advertised schedules, thus compete for air freight on equal terms with the regular airlines. At the same time CAB: 1) certificated Florida's U.S. Airlines, Inc. to fly a north-south freight route between the New York and Chicago areas and the southeast; 2) approved a local newspaper-delivery route flown by Texas...
...chances for profit looked good. In three years, air freight has grown from virtually nothing to more than 115 million ton-miles last year. The potential amount of U.S. air freight, said CAB last week, is more than one billion ton-miles per year, or more than eight times as much as all airlines are now hauling. The cargo lines had promised they would develop the business if given the chance. Now it was up to them to make good...
...lover threatens: "If you don't marry me, I'll buy a railroad ticket." Says the traveler in a newspaper cartoon: "One ticket to Ciudad Jućrez, please-and can you recommend a good hospital?" When a Cuernavaca-bound passenger train slammed head-on into a freight in the suburb of Tacubaya outside Mexico City one day last week, Ultimas
...part because much of their equipment is 40 years old," Mexican trains arrive on time so seldom that Mexicans call them las tortugas (turtles). In 1947, 162,000 passenger trains pulled in late; freight-train delays were so fantastic that the government suppressed the figures. On one 700-kilometer run, one freight "turtle" crawled in just 100 days late...
...shortest railroads in the U.S. is the little Ohio & Morenci, which hauls freight 20.2 mi. from Berkey, Ohio to Morenci, Mich. About six months ago, the Ohio & Morenci petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to go out of business: there just wasn't enough traffic to make it worthwhile...