Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first three months, v. 1,605,611 in 1951'S first quarter. But if they can boost output by utilizing existing stocks and substitute materials, they will be authorized to turn out 1,006,000 cars. ¶ Housebuilding will be maintained at 800,000 units a year, freight cars trimmed from 9,000 a month to 6,000, steel for hospitals and schools cut to 45% of the total demand. Even the military's metal supplies will be cut wherever Wilson believes they exceed the needs for immediately "doable" production. For example, the military's structural steel...
...auxiliary" opera troupe in Met history, and send it across the U.S. and Canada to sing nothing but Fledermaus. The troupe would bring live Met music to cities that never hear it and, Bing hoped, make a tidy profit. Cut the pauper-poor Met could not even pay the freight for such a tour...
...P443-09 501-605. A four-page contract included with the order warned the Chamber about such things as discrimination in employment, patent infringements, the Eight-Hour Law of 1912. Five pages of Additional General Provisions dealt with contract termination, labor disputes and the loading, bracing and blocking of freight cars. A pink slip pointed out that a variation of 10% in the quantity ordered would be unacceptable, but paragraph 31 of the Provisions said such a variation was O.K. Last week the Chamber wearily decided that "the red tape has already cost the taxpayers enough." Gratis...
...train lurched through the Asch station and raced on through the crowded freight yards. Comrade Conductor Beb rushed for the emergency brake and pulled it. Nothing happened: Engineer Konvalinka had done his job well. Beb ran to one of the hand brakes, but the tight-lipped men who had been watching the brakes elbowed him away...
...Paul Katscher, a railway official seized by Russian officers in 1947, while he was negotiating with the occupation powers for the return of "liberated" freight cars to Austria. Reported Moscow: Katscher, convicted of sabotage, had died in a Soviet jail June...