Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for the government's indifference is that it favors the government owned railway system, which has inaugurated a plan to provide auto-train accommodation for motorists going south or returning. Under the plan the autos are placed on freight cars while their drivers sleep in passenger cars on the same train. When the service was extended to five new cities last fall, a jokester writing in Le Figaro saw it as a step toward the ultimate solution of driving problems in France. By hauling cars everywhere by rail, he pointed out, there would be an end to highway...
...quiz show, the airline shipped along the thing that made him distinctive: a 2,300-lb. sugar cookie that the lad had baked himself. Nowadays, the nation's airlines are willing to carry almost anything-including some substantial losses-in the rush to fill their cargo bins. Air freight (excluding air mail and air express) has increased more than 50% in the last four years, reaching a volume of $230 million last year. This year it will increase another 10%, and aviation experts believe that it may some day rival passenger travel as a source of airline income...
...troubles meant opportunity for others. Sales of cigars rose across the U.S., and cigar stocks climbed on the major stock exchanges. Tobacconists everywhere reported an unprecedented surge in the sales of pipes; demand for bejeweled little pipes for ladies multiplied so fast that distributors rushed their shipments by air freight. Among the biggest gainers were the anti-nicotine preparations. Bantron, the largest-selling smoke-curbing drug, could not keep up with demand from its distributors, and neither could Nikoban and Ban-Smoke...
...York does practically all of its business hauling wines from the state's wine district. The Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe, which clears about $6,000 annually, services two northern California sawmills. The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway, only 17 miles long, does most of its business hauling bulk freight for a quarry and an American Cyanamid plant in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains...
...trader with the whisky was certain of cornering the market. One by one, the independent dealers went out of business or merged with the American Fur Co. Astor's greed was enormous. If company furs were exported in his own ships, he charged the company for the freight. The trappers who supplied him had to buy their clothes and equipment at American Fur Co. posts at a 300%-to-400% markup. But Astor's personal fortune, which included enormous returns from his investments in Manhattan real estate, has never been accurately determined; he kept scanty records. A conservative...