Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meen found no meteoric iron, only a reddish rock that might prove to be the peculiar stony material of which some meteorites are made. But there was plenty of other evidence that some enormous body had buried itself in the earth: shattered blocks of stone from football to freight-car size, and concentric circles in the granite around the crater, like ripples stirred up by a pebble dropped into still water...
Napoleon supposedly said that an army marched on its stomach. But in modern war, an army-and a nation at war-rides on its freight cars. In World War II, U.S. railroads hauled 142 million carloads of freight, the biggest cargo lift in history, and barely had enough cars to squeak...
...impressed Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson.* Said he last week: "The railroad statements are misleading ... The railroad plant today, compared to the size of the job it has to perform, is not nearly as good as in 1941. I would say that the outlook on the freight-car situation today is gloomier than it ever has been...
With a shortage of cars already pinching some sections of the U.S., Iron Age has predicted that the U.S. faces "a serious car shortage, potentially the worst in history." Chief reason: the supply of freight cars has not kept pace with the nation's growth. Though the gross national product has more than doubled in ten years, the number of freight cars in service has actually dwindled to 1,605,609 from 1,620,655 at the time of Pearl Harbor...
...this deficit. With U.S. steel mills already booked solid, there seems small chance of getting the 150,000 tons a month which the A.A.R.'s construction program requires. From bitter experience as wartime boss of the Office of Defense Transportation, Johnson knows that if steel allocations are revived, freight-car construction will be low on the priority list. (In fact, car building was banned for most of World War II.) Said Johnson: "You build freight cars before a war, or you don't build them...