Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent to the Senate a bill authorizing a $30 million atomic-powered ship. The vessel would take longer to build than the one requested by President Eisenhower (who contemplated the use of a Nantihistype reactor) and would carry passengers as well as freight...
...Between June 30 and July 13, shortly before the investigation began, 40 new grants were issued, covering $47,768,434 worth of new plants.) The committee was not impressed by the way railroads have been using the write-offs; it concluded that instead of expanding the size of their freight-car fleets, the roads have been using the write offs merely to replace old equipment. West Virginia's Representative Robert Mollohan, subcommittee chairman, noted that from Jan. 1, 1950 to June 1, 1955, Class I railroads (those with annual revenues of at least $1,000,000) bought...
...settlement of the railway strike gave the Eden government little more relief than that of a householder who puts out a fire in the living room only to find his front yard engulfed by a flood. Allowed to move freely through the countryside once more, huge piles of export freight and armies of overseas-bound passengers found themselves stopped short at Britain's shores by a 25-day-old dockers' strike and a wildcat walkout of seamen manning the Commonwealth's huge passenger vessels...
After eight years of waiting, a small, nonscheduled U.S. airline finally came into its own last week. In Washington. President Eisenhower approved a CAB recommendation giving Seaboard & Western Airlines Inc. a five-year certificate to fly a regular transatlantic freight service from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to seven European nations, thus making S. & W. the first U.S.-flag, all-cargo carrier to Europe...
...when the war ended, S. & W. ran into rough weather. In a single year, the line saw its gross plummet nearly 50% from the 1953 peak of $13.6 million. It returned six leased DC-4s, chopped its personnel, and hustled up private air freight, flying everything from European leather goods for the carriage trade to Indian rhesus monkeys for the Salk polio-vaccine program. It bought four new Lockheed Super Constellations to give customers faster service, expanded its service to the point where this year's revenues will top $15 million. Next step: more expansion by buying more long...