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Word: freights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gone But Not Forgotten. Early this week, as the switchmen were joined by increasing numbers of other railway workers, a creeping paralysis gripped the nation. Passenger service almost everywhere was erratic or nonexistent. A fourth of the nation's 800,000 loaded freight cars were stuck on sidings all over the country. Industrial workers were laid off by the thousands. The most severe embargo in history was clamped down by the post office: nothing moved by first class mail which weighed more than eight ounces. Planes, trucks and buses were jammed with mail, freight and passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Con Game | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...until he has gone gun-crazy in a church tower, and shot half a dozen Germans. The cold-eyed homosexual sways through Paris streets, glorying in the death of the social order: "Anything goes!" he cries, and picks up a blond young deserter. The Communist, penned in a freight car with his fellow Frenchmen, smiles grimly as their train rumbles toward a German prison camp: he looks for good fishing in the troubled waters of their discontent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Abyss | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...forthcoming novel (due next month) she may be a little on the freight. She feels that it is on an essentially unpopular subject: "It's called The Whole Armor, and my life's blood is in it. It's the story of a man's belief in God, and what happens to him. I worked on it nine hours a day, including Sundays, for two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Rosy View | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...thorne's hands in the year that he has been operating a wildcat airline called ANHSA (National Airline of Honduras). Though the little republic already had two major airlines, TACA of Honduras and SAHSA, a Pan American affiliate, the newcomer had somehow skimmed off the cream of the freight business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Flying Wildcatter | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...Gotta Take It." Nor was Joe hampered by the fact that his competitors owned most of the country's airstrips. Under Honduran law, any private field may be used for government freight; Joe took care to have some government cargo aboard any of his planes landing on TACA or SAHSA strips. That way he could use them without even paying landing fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Flying Wildcatter | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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