Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COAL PIPELINE, first for the industry, will be built by Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. to get around high railroad freight rates in the Great Lakes area. Costing approximately $10 million, the pipeline will run 108 miles between the coal company's Georgetown, Ohio mining properties and the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. plant at Eastlake, near Cleveland. It will carry as much as 1,200,000 tons of "slurry" (pulverized coal mixed with water) annually at an estimated $1 a ton cheaper than rail freight. Completion date: late...
...three airlines mentioned in your May 16 Time Clock item as "non-scheduled"airlines are Slick, Flying Tiger and Riddle. All three are scheduled, certificated airlines. They were certificated on the claim that there should be scheduled service devoted exclusively to freight . . . Also, the item says that the three have just won CAB permission to fly mail at 18½? per ton-mile v. 45? for scheduled lines. What the three were seeking was the right to carry 3? mail at 18½? per ton-mile, which is the rate at which 3? mail is currently being carried...
...cakes and eyed Aileen's presents. The shower broke up early, and the cleanup committee put off dishwashing until the next day; only a dozen women were still there when suddenly the lights went out. Then they heard the noise. Someone said: "It's a freight train." Another voice spoke up soberly: "It's a wind acomin'." Then the building collapsed; the twelve women, clinging tightly together, were knocked down, but all survived...
Every major city on the seaway route is planning waterfront improvements to attract shipping. Chicago will start work this summer on a $22.5 million dock expansion program; Toronto already has built a new million-dollar freight terminal, and is filling in waterfront sites for two more. Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth, Buffalo, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec all have laid plans to better their harbors and build bigger docks. More than 40,000,000 tons of ocean cargo are expected to clear through the seaway in its first year of operation, yielding an average of $1 a ton in harbor fees and loading...
...George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...