Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor, and the Secret Service wanted to find a way out for me without running into the reporters. They took me to a private room and locked me up like a convict. They scouted the top floor and finally found an escape route. They brought me down on a freight elevator, then walked me through the kitchen to my limousine. But just as I got through the kitchen, some maid spotted me and let out a whoop. I ducked and hid my face. The last thing I wanted was for someone to start applauding then. But she'd recognized...
...Moscow. To the profound embarrassment of the Bonn government, that proved to be the simplest part of the whole caper. The spies took the Sidewinder apart, wrapped it in packages and sent the pieces on the next commercial airliner going to the Soviet Union-via ordinary postal air freight. The cost...
Like you can a freight train...
...mile downstream stretch is already navigable, will be extended another 100 miles to Little Rock before year's end. Engineers predict yearly benefits of $69,927,400, by 1970, a strangely precise estimate arrived at by combining savings in flood control, hydroelectric energy, recreation and freight. Up and down the river, land prices have soared-in one case from $25 an acre to $2,500 with no ceiling yet in sight. Boats have become as ubiquitous as second cars. Supporters of the project claim that cheap transportation will tap the landlocked region's raw materials and enrich...
...eight in one day. Last year delays cost the airlines $50 million. This year, in the Golden Triangle alone, they are hitting $1,000,000 a day. Uncounted-and largely unnoticed-additional losses come from air-cargo delays. New York Customs Broker Jack Hyams said that Kennedy Airport has freight stacked up "practically to the runway," with three-week delays for some local deliveries after shipments have been landed...