Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying the Freight. The President cited school construction, slum clearance, disaster relief and traffic safety as areas where he had found it necessary to urge federal action because of "inaction or inadequate action" by the several states. His recommended remedy: a major federal-state "task force for action" to reallocate the functions and revenues of the two governmental levels. Said he: "The elimination of federal overhead-stopping, in other words, the 'freight charges' on money being hauled from the states to Washington and back (a bill, I remind you, that is always collected in full)-would save...
DOWNING B. JENKS, president, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.: "A 3% or 4% increase in carloadings and the possibility of an increase in freight rates should enable the railroads to overcome, to a large extent, the burden of higher wages and material costs, thus ending up the year about as well...
...children toward the nearest neighbor with a basement, and as many as 40 people huddled together in these rare dugouts. Not everyone heard the warnings, and not everyone who heard heeded them. By 7 p.m., when the twister swirled over the state line with a roar like a highballing freight train, the 16-store Ruskin Heights shopping center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles long, in some places ploughed a 1,000-yd. swath, splintered more than 700 homes and 40 stores. Ruskin Heights and its shopping center were hard hit. Four died when...
Though his record as a pilot was spotty, Infante was fond of flying and even owned a major interest in an air-freight line. One morning last week he set out from Merida, Yucatan as copilot on one of his transports, a converted B-24 carrying a load of fish. Three minutes after takeoff, the plane dived into a house, killing Infante, the pilot, the mechanic and two teen-agers in the house...
Banking by Car. So that depositors can transact their business from their cars, the Community National Bank of Pontiac, Mich, installed a teller's curbside cage that rises like a freight elevator out of the sidewalk, still leaving room for pedestrians to pass. After banking hours the cage drops back...