Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hatred now directed against the New Deal is clearly deep and sincere. The list of Southern grievances is long: "coddling" of the Negro, "coddling" of labor, attacks on the poll tax, upping of Southern pay scales, failure to redress discriminatory freight rates, the 1938 Purge. But the Southerners' anger is also compounded of resentment against long-continued rebuffs and slights. And their passion is fiercely personal, not only against the President but even more bitterly against the White House inner circle-Harry Hopkins, Dave Niles, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter-whose group tactlessness in dealing with Congress has long been...
Last week the A.S.C. proudly announced its own air freight line. It is, properly, the longest in the world: 14,000 miles from A.S.C. headquarters at Patterson Field (near Dayton, Ohio) to Karachi, India. A big Liberator cargo plane (C-87) made the first round-trip run in twelve days. Outboard, it carried 8,300 lb. of fuel pumps, starters, magnetos and other critical replacements for the China-Burma-India theater. The return load was mainly damaged parts for rush repairs at the 300-odd depots and sub-depots...
...leaves the factory, from then on keeps it in fuel, ammunition and repair. A.S.C. depots make any needed plane modifications which would otherwise slow up a factory production line, fit out every plane for flight or shipment overseas. A.S.C. also acts as an express company for all air freight in the U.S. flown by the Air Transport Command. It even publishes an illustrated catalogue of surplus or obsolete items (TIME...
...half-breed Indian had disappeared. Several years later oil was discovered on land allotted to the boy, and his father claimed the royalties. The only evidence of the boy's death was a skeleton buried in Arkansas, where the father said his son had been killed riding a freight...
...help him sell people on "The Peoria Gateway," amazed potential customers by helping them sell their own goods and services too. Since then he has poured $20,000,000 back into new equipment, has located over 300 new industries to ship via M. & St. L., and has diversified its freight load over the seasons, so that its accountants no longer automatically reach for the red ink seven months out of every twelve...