Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acres of trees they could no longer afford to spray, and went so terribly in the red that the average debt was $750 per acre. But by 1941 prices went up; the demand for Wenatchee's luxury apples was brisk. That fall, when Shipper Reuben Benz wangled a freight reduction, the growers were riding so high that they gave him 3,100 silver dollars, trundled into a banquet room in a wheelbarrow...
Groaning under record loads of passengers and freight, short of men, shy of equipment, U.S. railroads have chugged along by dint of many a huff, puff and prayer, and some luck. Now their luck seemed to be running...
Unluckiest of all was mighty Pennsylvania Railroad. A Pennsy resort train was derailed near Howard City, Mich. (two killed). At Altoona, Pa. two freight trains and a train of empty passenger cars were derailed (one killed). The 80th victim of the wreck of the P.R.R.'s swift Congressional (TIME, Sept. 13) died in a Philadelphia hospital. Then, same day, an eight-alarm, $250,000 blaze swept through Philadelphia's old Broad Street station. Six empty passenger cars were burned to charcoal and scrap iron...
...Montgomery County, Alabama, the cotton bolls hung heavy on the plants. If they were not picked in a hurry, September rains would ruin the crop. In New Jersey an appeal for volunteers to unload freight had brought 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours (TIME, Sept. 6). Now the Alabama planters staged their own campaign, for a modest 400 men, women & children cotton pickers...
...Future It Made. With a ship building backlog of nearly $30,000,000, Cargill, Inc. has no trouble fitting its new yard into the pattern of its postwar operations. To get lower freight rates for Port Cargill now, Cargill, Inc. has already bought the 115-mile Minnesota-Western R.R. which taps Minneapolis and the rich grainlands of central Minnesota. Thus, Cargill, Inc. has its own port at the head of the navigable Mississippi, its own railroad to supply...