Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union, U.S. railroads last week won a crucial battle in their campaign to regain some of the business they have lost to the trucking industry. By a vote of 10 to 1, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that the railroads could offer cut rates on piggybacking-the carrying of freight-loaded truck bodies on railroad flatcars-in cases where the shipper himself provides either the trailer or trailer and flatcar...
Even before the ruling, piggybacking volume had trebled since 1955. While other carloadings were declining, there were 554,000 flatcar piggyback trips last year. Barring a reversal in the courts, the new decision should enable the railroads to regain a substantial percentage of the nation's freight business. Railroad men see almost unlimited possibilities for a sensible idea with the awkward name of "containerization"-moving a sealed cargo container from door to door without any repackaging of its contents. Though the Teamsters charge that piggybacking is designed to destroy the trucking industry entirely, the railroads are already cooperating with...
...machine tools registered a sharp 49.9% rise in March over February's figure of $46 million. The increase underscored a McGraw-Hill survey indicating that industry had raised its sights on capital equipment expenditures for the year to $35.4 billion, only 1% less than in 1960. Railway freight-car loadings jumped for the fourth straight week. March retail sales soared to a record high of nearly $18 billion, up 2.6% over the previous record, set in March 1960, while the cost-of-living index held steady for the fifth month...
...main training bases in Guatemala, and at staging bases at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and tiny Swan Island off the Honduran coast, fish were already rising. In recent weeks, the equivalent of 50 freight carloads of aerial bombs, rockets, ammunition and firearms was airlifted into Puerto Cabezas by unmarked U.S. C-54s, C-46s and C-47s, in such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built...
...needed to rush supplies to the Russian front. The economic ministers howled that Eichmann was grabbing highly skilled Jews off the assembly lines of slave factories important to the war effort. Pale-eyed Rudolf Hoess. commandant of Auschwitz, begged Eichmann to ease up because he was receiving more human "freight" than he could conveniently kill. At Majdanek. the tall, tapering crematorium chimneys belched flame day and night until "a light dust lay over the whole city" of Lublin. At Auschwitz, even Eichmann noted that the smell of burning flesh "was not very pleasant.'' On May 29, 1942. Czech...