Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start, few of his big, set speeches were ever as effective as his short whistle-stop talks. Here Ike was in his element: half the town gathered at the depot, high-school bands playing John Philip Sousa, the kids excused from school excitedly scrambling over freight cars and station buildings for a better look. These talks were far from polished; Ike's grammar could be hair-raising. The correspondents on his campaign train gleefully kept score of his cliches; but Eisenhower somehow can get away with cliches. When he says "I love this land...
...I.B.M. freight-control equipment...
...President too-or of voters willing to climb into the family automobile and drive out to hear them. Bob, Dick and Harry (it was a great campaign for first names) were out talking as loudly as the candidates. From coast to coast, crowds gathered at sidings, perched on freight cars, jammed courthouse steps and airports, to be bathed in political oratory...
...eight years the Finns, their territory reduced 12% by Russia's annexation of Karelia and Petsamo province, have worked in shipyards, lumber camps, factories and foundries to meet the harsh Russian levy. They have delivered, among other things, 300 paper mills, 7,000 locomotives and freight cars, countless miles of cable, electric motors by the truckload, scores of thousands of prefabricated wooden houses, huge river barges for the Volga, and a 573-ship merchant marine...
...relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates and higher packinghouse wages would make it impossible to pass on all of the wholesale drops. And ranchers themselves argued that demand is apt to go right on rising with the supply. The U.S., eating 48.7 Ibs. of beef per person in 1930, last year ate 63 Ibs. in spite...