Word: freights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviets do their skinning? Simple. You turn back 27 freight trains loaded with coal for Berlin factories, because the "cars are defective." You halt passenger traffic because "the stations are congested." Then you close the Autobahn bridge across the Elbe for "urgent repairs." Now, on the one precarious road to the West still open to the Western powers, jeeps and buses bounce over ten miles of a cobblestone detour, push onto a creeping, motorless ferry. When someone asks the German policeman aboard how the bridge repairs are coming, he grins: "You don't think they are real...
...world is Stanley C. Kennedy, 58, the island-born, Stanford-educated president of the line. When he came home from World War I service as a Navy flyer, Stan Kennedy tried to get his father's Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., for years the only inter-island freight and passenger carrier, to start an airline. Instead of 15 hours from Honolulu to Hilo, he argued, it would take only a few hours. Old James Kennedy, a hypercautious Scotsman, said nothing doing...
...line carries tons of freight a day, in addition to some 900 passengers. A typical day's haul: newspapers, nuts...
...passes a palace and mule-and camel-crowded courtyards, and, bristling with beggars, jugglers, doctors, fortunetellers, scholars, salesmen and young blades on the loose, arches over a river where freight and pleasure boats lie moored in clusters...
...been a bad weekend for the nation. Most railroads had put an-embargo on shipment of perishables. Thousands of vegetable workers in California had already been laid off. Imminent freight and passenger-train cancellations spread confusion. The war of nerves touched virtually every citizen in the land...