Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goods which businessmen could not sell to Eastern Europe and Red China. Since the harshest complaints were leveled at the Chinese Communists, the number of items embargoed for them outnumbered the list for the satellite countries. The Eastern Europe gimmick is to buy strategic materials in the West and freight them to the Chinese at top prices. Each day free world generators, machine tools, and petroleum equipment are raced across the Trans-Siberian railroad to the East, all via the profit making of the middle men in occupied Europe...
...clammy dawn, a railway inspector in Hamburg last week was making his rounds of freight cars on a siding. A car packed with crated machinery from Hungary caught his eye. From a knothole in one big crate, a finger beckoned. The inspector hurried over to the crate. Inside it a hoarse voice whispered: "Thirst, thirst." When police broke open the crate a young, dirty-bearded man, too weak even to stand, fell out into their arms...
...flatcar. Soon afterward, Imre was on his way. Cramped and crouching, he shivered with cold as the car rolled westward. After the second day, he could not eat his dry bread. By the end of the sixth day, his drinking water was used up. It took the slow freight that carried his crate three days to get to the Czech frontier at Bratislava. It stood for seven days on a siding near Prague before moving on to East Germany. By the time the freight chugged into Hamburg last week, Komoroczky had been trapped in his crate for 13 days...
...under a new pricing and delivery system put into effect by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. To cut the price spread between Detroit and the West Coast, the companies will tack higher transportation costs on cars sold within 1,200 miles of Detroit, use the additional revenue to lower freight to more distant markets...
...cost of shipping an average car, unboxed, as freight, is $360 to England and $415 to France. To box a car costs about...