Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before he won control of the New York Central management, Robert R. Young liked to scourge the "goddamned bankers" and attack railroad operators while he championed the poor, neglected passengers. Crusader Bob's most effective ploy was a cartoon of a pig. fat and sassy in his freight car, looking down on a bedraggled, luggage-laden human traveler and his family changing trains. Hooted the ad: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...
...Luang Burakam decided that the main street before the great former royal palace where the conference is to be held needed some fountains. He got off a cable to Germany, and before one could say Prajadhipok. workmen were installing gleaming, white, multi-tiered jobs which had arrived by air freight...
...machine-tool industry was criticized for using obsolete methods and being behind production in electric motors, steam engines, metal-cutting lathes, chemical, textile and rolling mill equipment, and most particularly in freight cars, self-propelled grain combines, tractor cultivators and threshing machines...
TRUCK MANUFACTURERS are in for some competition from the railroads. Burlington Railroad, which makes most of its own freight cars but still has idle space in its shops, will make a newly designed highway trailer (24-ft. aluminum van type) as a pilot model for a production run of several hundred to try out on its Burlington Truck Lines (812 trucks and trailers...
...Gary, Ind., General Railway Signal Co. installed the nation's first fully automated freight-car yard for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. By using radar and electronic brain circuits, the system sorts out and assembles freight cars by destination, automatically weighs them and controls their speed as they roll down an incline to assembly points, where they are coupled into trains. General Railway Signal is now installing similar systems in six other yards...