Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobilized a fleet of ships that carried 3 billion ton-miles of freight-including 265,000 tons of pipe-from more than 5,000 U.S. suppliers. On a Persian Gulf sandspit, he built a port. Across the desert he threaded 930 miles of highway. He operated 1,500 cars and trucks, built airfields, ran Tapline's own private airline and radio communication system. To get water, Hull's men dug 40 producing wells which now supply water to 100,000 Bedouin tribesmen, 150,000 camels and 300,000 sheep and goats. At the pipeline's six lonely...
...hampered last year by a coal strike. Pittsburgh Consolidation, biggest U.S. coal producer, more than doubled its quarterly net to $4.2 million. Pennsylvania Railroad, which like all railroads reports monthly earnings, said that in September its net hit $4.4 million, v. a $2.8 million loss a year ago. One freight booster: the Korean...
Ohio's business-farm trucks, oil trucks, family sedans-buzzed by. In the town of Nevada (pop. 1,000), a mile-long Pennsylvania freight train supplied a thunderous overtone. In tiny Wharton, a siren shrieked and a fire truck rattled past the speaker, slowing down to let four of Taft's 40 listeners jump on. "Maybe it's just a Democratic plot," said Taft dryly, and went on talking. Nothing stopped him, nothing could stop him short of a bolt of lightning...
Walter Chrysler, a topnotch railroad mechanic, had no idea how to drive. He hired a team of horses to haul the car home from the freight office in Oelwein, Iowa. But he spent three months taking it apart and putting it together again. By that time, he had a pretty good notion of how an automobile worked...
Walter Chrysler did not come altogether from the Horatio Alger mold. As a boy, he often sneaked off the job to smoke, drink beer and play cards. As a young railroad mechanic, he roamed from job to job, hitched rides on freight trains and occasionally panhandled when he was broke. But his curiosity about tools and machines was endless and his skill in using them not far from genius. After high school in Ellis, Kans., he started as a sweeper in the local railroad shop at 10? an hour. By the time he bought the Locomobile, he was superintendent...