Word: freights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pakistan is getting coal only by paying three times the market rate. At that, its railroads have only enough for 20 days' restricted operation. They are now carrying no freight-only refugees. Indian warehouses are glutted with textiles intended for Pakistan, which cannot make its own and now cannot pay for shipments from India...
...Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm. Aboard were a crew of four and 21 passengers, all Swedish pilots and mechanics homebound after delivering in Addis Ababa 16 surplus Swedish light bombers for Emperor Haile Selassie's tiny but growing air force...
...astronomers, engineers and technicians thanked all the stars as they watched the mirror backed into the observatory. The case was opened. A crane lifted the precious freight over the threshold of the chamber under the dome, where the giant telescope, crouched on its massive supports, was waiting...
Little Glimmer. Office of Defense Transportation Director J. Monroe Johnson reported that the steel industry has volunteered to increase supplies to freight-car builders by more than 50%, beginning early next year. Builders raised their production goals to 14,000 new cars a month by next July, giving Johnson the first "glimmer of hope in the freight-car situation...
...economic evangelism had to be preached and practiced. Freight rates had to be readjusted. Factories had to grow in the catfish rows of the old South. Chep Morrison's New Orleans had made a good start. The city's great crescent-shaped waterfront was a manifestation of a new day. The artery throbbed with more than trade. It throbbed with new hope...