Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months since eleven unions struck the Florida East Coast Railway over a wage dispute, there have been some 200 acts of sabotage against the line. All told, 82 freight cars have been derailed, a station and a bridge burned, another bridge blown up, and $1,250,-000 damage done in one of the meanest railroad strikes in recent U.S. history. Last week it got even meaner...
Bitter Controversy. The fastest rise in air-freight shipments has been among the major U.S. trunk airlines-United, TWA, American and Pan American-which are predominantly passenger carriers. This fact has involved them in a bitter controversy with the all-cargo lines, such as Slick and Flying Tiger, which claim that the encroachments of the big lines could drive them out of business. Most of the big lines are losing money on their cargo operations, but these losses are balanced out by the current rich profits from passenger travel. The Civil Aeronautics Board, sympathetic to the plight...
...real surge in air freight came only after the airlines began flying the big passenger jets, whose cargo compartments alone can carry as much freight as a DC-4 air freighter. But the breakthrough in air freight is only beginning. Before mid-1965, U.S. airlines will be flying 30 DC-8F and Boeing 707-321C jet freighters, each of which in one week's normal schedule can car ry coast to coast enough freight to fill 20 boxcars. Using prepacked freight pallets, special lift mechanisms and aircraft floors with built-in rollers, crews can load and unload...
Brioches & Mistletoe. Air freight's big millstone is still its expense: rates average a costly 11.1? per ton-mile v. only 1.3? by rail and 6.3? by truck. "We must keep in mind," says United Airlines Chairman "Pat" Patterson, "that the cost of lifting an object differs a great deal from that of pulling it." But many industries obviously find the advantage well worth the cost. Because damage is less and there is little need for crating, nearly all computers are shipped by air. Boeing saved $750,000 by flying 100 jet engines to its Seattle assembly plant...
...freight's most ardent advocates predict that it will turn the U.S. into one vast market "five hours wide and 21 hours deep." That day is still some distance away, but an industry that does not blink at moving a 2,300-lb. cookie is quite capable of making the dream a reality. Right now, in fact, air freight is growing twice as fast as passenger travel...