Word: freights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis Crimped? Office of Defense Transportation Director J. M. Johnson announced that freight-car production in October reached a postwar peak of 8,394. He hopes that the goal of 10,000 cars a month, scheduled for September, might be reached this month. Reversing a three-year trend, the U.S. in the last two months has built more cars than have been scrapped...
Sandwiched between two barges carrying 40 loaded freight cars, the New Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made...
...radar, specially designed by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. for close-range work, shows objects 80 yards away, large objects even closer. It can "see" for 30 miles, but tugboats are seldom concerned with such distances. It costs about $12,000, may save much more on the barges that shuttle freight cars between New Jersey and the docks of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The New Haven and the Pennsylvania figure that radars on their 51 tugs may save $50-100,000 every foggy...
...Cigar. In Geneva, N.Y., a ten-year-old lad who stopped a New York Central freight train by shooting the fireman with a BB gun admitted to police that he had been in error-he was aiming at the engineer...
...George Washington, Bayonne, Goethals Bridges, the Outerbridge Crossing, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. The Authority also runs Brooklyn's Gowanus Grain Terminal, built the 14-story Port Authority Building that houses the Union Inland Railroad Freight Station for less-than-carload lots...