Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Electric eyes for reading and recording freight-car numbers...
...Walkie-talkies for messages between freight locomotives, the caboose and brakemen patrolling the car tops...
...tanks, mobile guns, trucks rolled forward again, across the flatlands and icebound marshes. With blank eyes the men watched the burning enemy tanks, the sidings lined with freight cars from France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, the black-and-yellow posts marked Deutschland, planted on Russian soil by the confident Wehrmacht. With blank eyes they saw Nazi posters on charred village walls: an SS soldier hugging a husky Ukrainian woman, with happy children and goats playing in the background. They had seen such women swing from German gallows, had seen the bullet-holed bodies of such children...
Moreover, the railroads have fewer postwar problems than any other major industry. Their net earnings ($850 million in 1943) are not subject to renegotiation. They have salted away $1.6 billion in cash for new equipment and roadbeds. Despite 1943 traffic of one and a half times as much freight and two and a half times as much passenger business as they handled in a good year like 1928, improved equipment and techniques allowed them to do the job with 250,000 fewer employes...
...Planned a little White House "social" for disgruntled Southern Governors arriving in Washington to discuss discriminatory freight rates...