Word: freights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited, etc.), and modern new stations as well. Now he is pondering the biggest problem of all: finding a better and more profitable way to handle all the road's freight...
Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists through...
...German capital. The airlift had taken the lives of 31 U.S. airmen, 39 British and seven German civilians. By the time it finally shut down last week most of the original airmen had long since been transferred home, crammed with the invaluable lessons of the largest air freight operation in history...
...only was Pittsburgh becoming the most unlivable city in the U.S.; Pittsburgh's domination of the steel world was literally at stake. Markets for steel had moved westward. The Supreme Court's decision outlawing the basing-point system (by which Pittsburgh steel plants had absorbed freight costs to distant markets) had caused consternation among steelmen. Pittsburgh, with much of its equipment overworked and worn out by the war, was faced with determined competition from other steel centers; Chicago, with less steelmaking capacity, had actually outproduced...
...railroads did not know how to buck the trend, as long as labor costs kept rising and income dropping. Since 1939, railroad freight rates had been increased 57%. All told, the railroads will collect an estimated $3 billion more a year for freight hauling than under the 1939 rates. Meanwhile wages have been boosted 86% -and next month's reduction of the work week from 48 to 40 hours will cost another $380 million a year...