Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square miles) Portuguese colony of Macao, whose legitimate industries are the packaging of matches, firecrackers and Sin. Into Macao one day last week came the Portuguese ship Rovuma, with a cargo of iron and steel plates, machine tools and industrial chemicals. That night coolies shifted the Rovuma's freight into motorized junks, which began moving up the Pearl River toward Canton...
...stationmaster but a freight foreman, Louis retired in 1949 at the age of 65, full of pride in his five sons, all of whom went to college, and two married daughters; proud, too, to be a city councilman, and proud of the new world that had brought him so many good things...
Propane Locomotive. The first propane gas turbine locomotive has been developed by the Union Pacific Railroad, Richfield Oil and General Electric. The 276-ton unit, which the U.P. plans to use on its Los Angeles-Salt Lake City freight run, can deliver 4,800 h.p., more than three diesel units operated together. The U.P. expects maintenance costs to be low because propane burns without leaving carbon-like deposits on the turbine blades, a fault of coal-and oil-driven turbines...
...Faster Freight. A new, high-speed Santa Fe train, designed for better competition with truckers in hauling fresh fruit from the West Coast, set a new record for California-to-Chicago freight trains on its maiden run last week. Train No. 62 hauled 18 refrigerated carloads of American Beauty plums to McCook, Ill. in 61½ hours, compared to the average truck time of about 96 hours...
...first agreement is commercial: Austria and Communist Hungary will exchange passengers, and freight on the Danube. Austrian ships will be permitted to sail through Hungary and to the Black Sea; Hungarian ships may pass upriver through Austria to trade with Germany...