Word: freights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armstrong, Okla., the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad's Texas Special ran through a signal in a dense fog and plowed into a freight locomotive. An engineer was killed, eight others were injured...
...month plus his room rent, or one term's worth of legal training at the University. When professional coal thieves moved in from Hamburg (where competition had grown too heavy and the police too strict), he had a little trouble. The newcomers, working in large groups at freight yards, netted several tons a night and sold them through a central organization at fixed prices. They disliked small-time operators like Klaus, who undersold them. But after a little rough stuff, Klaus agreed to conform to the pros' price schedule, and everything went smoothly until the first disastrous signs...
...curio. Coal, Chaos, was as plentiful as hay: We had so much we sent the stuff away! The Railways, not less rapid than they are, But much more regular, went just as far. The Ships, with small assistance from the State, Sailed round the Planet and returned with Freight . . . Either by Accident this isle was blessed Or there was far more planning than we guessed...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came prime good news for West Coast industrialists. Beginning April i, a 31% reduction in freight rates will go into effect on steel shipped from U.S. Steel's Geneva (Utah) plant. This would reduce steel prices about $4.40 a ton for West Coast customers (TIME, March 10). Cried the jubilant Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce: "The decision . . . establishes the new Western steel price economy for which we have fought so long and hard...
...economy might have come a month earlier except for the anguished cries of Henry J. Kaiser (TIME, March 10) for a freight cut for his Fontana steel plant. This had held up the Geneva reduction. As ICC said that it would continue to study Western freight rates, Westerners guessed that Henry Kaiser might soon get his reduction...