Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maze of steel rails that stretches for miles along the New Jersey shore across from Manhattan, 8,000 loaded boxcars stood idle last week, waiting for their war freight to be moved to ships. The blight of manpower shortage had moved from New Jersey's tomato canning (TIME, Aug. 30) to an even more critical field...
...railroads needed 3,200 more men at once to 1) get the freight to the piers, 2) get the boxcars moving west for another load. Off on a manhunt went the War Manpower Commission and Railroad Retirement Board. Said WMC's Major Howard J. Lepper: "This is no sissy job. It calls for husky workers with a stiff backbone and plenty of muscle. But I'll even take women provided they have plenty of beef...
...rich, postwar plum of passengers and freight traffic across the North Atlantic to Europe, American Airlines, biggest U.S. domestic line, last week reached out a powerful hand. American filed its application with CAB for two North Atlantic routes: 1) from New York and Boston to London, 2) from Chicago and Detroit to London...
Minus "passenger comforts" (food cupboards, pillows, oxygen, stewardesses), two 21-passenger DC-35 were turned over to the freight run, still equipped with seats for quick reconversion if necessary. But ground crews managed to pack in 4,000 to 6,000 Ib. of high-priority cargo (including mail) for each flight...
...Defeated. After the collapse of the French armies, captive French soldiers were marched 20 to 40 miles a day without food, crammed into temporary French prison camps. Later they were packed into filthy freight cars and shipped to Germany. Half-starved and battered with gun butts, Hélion and nine comrades were sent to a big baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates...