Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Truck piggyback service for general freight has doubled in two years, become the rails' most profitable single freight operation. Last week six of the biggest U.S. trucking firms joined in a new company to cooperate with the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in building special piggyback terminals for general freight in Jersey City and Chicago...
...long and bitter battle between the railroads and the truckers, the railroads are making new gains by inducing their opponents to defect. Their weapon: piggybacking, the carrying of freight-loaded truck bodies on railroad flatcars...
pressuring other truckers to sign up. He has also launched a full-scale public relations barrage against the railroads, loping to stir up support for an amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act that would limit the rails' power to undercut freight charges on piggyback runs...
...fight for auto freight may get rougher than words. The St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, which developed the first three-level cars (TIME, Oct. 24), has already run into some mysterious acts of sabotage. Acid dumped from highway overpasses ruined the paint jobs on one shipment of 29 autos and on another of 150. The railroad had to pay $484,000 for the damage. Other railroads have had cars damaged by shotgun blasts or peppered with rocks. To guard the shipments, Frisco's auto trains now carry an extra caboose and an extra crew...
...intrinsic comedy been so unforced. Michael had-secretly accumulated a weird library from bookstore trash boxes, and its contents filled his mind, but nothing fitted anything he had to do in the world. Thus, when fired from his first good job as the world's worst railway freight clerk, he spoke that night in his self-taught Gaelic to a Gaelic League meeting on the character of Goethe. In short, a hopeless case. If ever a man became a writer because there was nothing else in the world he could do, it was Frank O'Connor...