Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss "a phantom deficit." According to Berge, the deficit "for the most part consists of costs which could not be avoided" even if the rails carried no passengers at all. The rails' $153,000-a-mile capital investments in bridges, yards, rails, for example, is needed for the freight traffic that accounts for 87% of the roads' revenue. Eliminating passenger traffic would therefore cut fixed costs by very little, but would cut out a margin of pure profit...
...shipping, American Export Lines profits increased more than tenfold to $3.1 million, thanks largely to increases in cargo volumes, freight rates., postwar Government subsidies. Pennsylvania Railroad's $22.2 million net was its best first half, although high operating expenses caused June returns to slack...
With the high cost of doing business, top sales sometimes were not enough to guarantee top profits. Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. scored a sales record for its first quarter, but earnings slumped 4% to $25.5 million, partially because of higher wages and freight rates. Du Pont's net from chemicals dropped slightly as a result of the belt-tightening in textiles and autos...
...East and West rail headquarters keep in constant touch over train schedules, freight costs, tickets, border control. The West German shipping administration in Hamburg and the Soviet zone agency in Magdeburg deal with each other in keeping barge traffic flowing on the Elbe and the big Mittelland canal...
Peter, a captured French soldier, and his buddy are allowed by the Germans to tend the graves of their fellow French in a bucolic cemetery on the outskirts of Brodno, Poland. Peter thinks of death as a quiet neighbor until the freight cars of ill-fated Jews rumble past and the calling and weeping of human voices is carried on the wind until it fades into the distance, "leaving behind it that same serene sky, that store of blue that bewildered birds and dying men can never exhaust...