Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-motored, 65,000-lb (standard gross weight) C-54, transport and cargo plane that hauls a freight car load through the skies...
...strike deadline produced the usual war of nerves. First day, almost all John Lewis' 530,000 miners stayed home; the freight cars stood empty at the mine shafts, the U.S. began losing 2,000,000 tons of coal production a day. Then John L. postponed his policy-committee meeting another day. But the Administration, sadly outmaneuvered by John L. last spring, had also learned a few tricks. Franklin Roosevelt, moving swiftly, seized all coal mines, handed them over to Fuel Boss Harold Ickes. And under the Smith-Connally-Harness Act, strike leaders can now be jailed...
...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
...Again. The railroads, piling up their biggest surpluses in two decades, had agreed without fuss to meet the 8? rise for the "non-ops" without asking for rate increases. But there was one cold fact which would send them scurrying to the ICC with a demand for higher freight rates: a rise in the price of coal...
...would virtually be compelled to follow suit. WLB might order a smaller increase, but some upping of the pay scale seemed certain. And when the miners' pay goes up, mine operators will ask OPA for a coal price increase ; railroads in turn will ask the ICC for a freight rate increase, and the inflationary spiral will be in full motion...