Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confronted the U.S. and Britain with huge bills ($14 million for the U.S., $4,650,000 for the British) for telephone & telegraph service between West Berlin and West Germany, as they had during the 1948 Berlin blockade, and demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...
More Traffic, Less Money. The turnpikes are the newest answer to highway congestion. The U.S., the most mobile and mechanized nation in the world, is wearing its roads out faster than it builds new ones. At the same time, the amount of its passenger and freight highway traffic keeps growing. In 16 years, the load on U.S. roads has more than doubled, from 518 billion ton-miles in 1936 to some 1.4 trillion ton-miles in 1951. And the number of vehicles has grown from 28 million to 52 million. But the U.S. is spending only $2.5 billion a year...
...City & San Juan is represented by tough, dishonest Sterling Hayden. After payroll holdups, gun battles, a landslide, dynamiting and a head-on train collision, right triumphs, and the Rio Grande comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol Naish as pioneer railroad men, and Zasu Pitts as a fluttery frontier belle...
...concessions. Nevertheless, new patterns are emerging. Birmingham reports that Northern mills are sending agents into the South looking for business as a hedge against expected surpluses. Giant Bethlehem Steel Corp. has sent teams of salesmen to the Chicago area hunting up trade. In Detroit, warehousemen are offering to absorb freight costs to lure buyers in the Gary and Cleveland markets...
...Loewy $75,000 a year to think up new styles for handles, new color combinations, etc. As a result, in cutlery alone, he is now producing an average of 300,000 knives a week (ranging from 10? to as much as $5.95). When he first asked for a carload freight rate on knives, the railroads refused to believe anyone shipped that many; Keating has shipped three full carloads in nine weeks alone...