Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made his more conservative officers nervous. He proposed, for example, to replace the present mainline rolling stock with low-slung, highspeed, articulated Talgo trains (he has already ordered three), and to string a moving conveyor belt along the tracks between New York and Boston to carry less-than-carload freight. But for all his energy, ambition and ideas, McGinnis made his passengers feel like galley slaves...
Poor, pedantic schoolmarms! The language vehicle to them is more precious than the freight it carries. Their small world consists in parsing a sentence...
...FREIGHT-RATE INCREASE is in the offing. A presidential fact-finding committee has recommended a 16½? hourly package increase for 750,000 nonoperating employees (their present average hourly pay: $1.78). To offset rising wage and material costs, U.S. railroads will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to okay a 7% freight-rate boost...
Risky. With the News he also got its subsidiaries: the Huntsville. Ala. Times (circ. 18,988), radio stations WAPI, WAFM and WHBS, TV station WABT and a freight company. Last year the News and subsidiaries piled up $3,000,000 in profits before taxes. A big reason for the fat profit is the fact that the News holds a virtual monopoly in Birmingham. By 1950 it had grown so strong that it forced the Scripps-Howard Birmingham Post, now the Post-Herald, into a junior partnership. Though separately written, the Post-Herald is printed and distributed by the News...
Rotterdam, Veeridam (ah, but the crew is cranky), Grande Dame (the liner she's), Rooseveltdam, Hotdam, Goddamn. Aphasia, Valeteria (founded in 1926), Ablaut, Umlaut, Nein and Ja (freight only...