Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York became the third city (first two: Los Angeles and Chicago) to get CAB approval for mail, freight and passenger helicopter service connecting its three main airports with Manhattan and 43 points outside the city. New York Airways, Inc., authorized to start the service, will not be allowed to fly passengers except between the three airports until it has carried freight and mail for a year...
False Alarm. In Indianapolis, police rushed to the freight yards to look for a dismembered body in a boxcar, found Howard Finley resting beside his wooden...
Among the factors in the South's industrial growth are cheap electric power from TVA and private utilities, natural gas piped from Louisiana and Mississippi, and a lowering of Southern freight rates, which used to be much higher than in the Northeast and Midwest...
Industry draws industry. Each new payroll gave the South more money to spend. Northern manufacturers had to decide whether it was cheaper to feed this market by freight or by a new branch plant. Ford moved an assembly plant into Atlanta, General Motors began building Chevrolets, then Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks in Atlanta too. Purchasing power brought refrigerator plants, refrigerator plants brought enameling plants. Dairy processors and meat packers came along as Southern workers began eating higher & higher on the hog. An estimated 14% of all U.S. industry now lies in the Southeastern...
...fashion exports. And, like Britain, Japan cannot earn enough dollars with her exports to pay for her imports. Before the Korean war, Japan was on the ragged edge of bankruptcy. Since the war, Japanese businessmen have reaped huge profits from more than $500 million in U.N. orders (e.g., freight cars, transportation services, repairs to U.N. tanks, planes, ships and artillery pieces). They have enjoyed the profits without assuming the responsibilities...