Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Completing the damage was Kenneth White's Freight, concerned with a boxcar encounter between a group of frightened Negroes and a taunting Southern white. The author was obviously so obsessed with the idea of racial injustice that he never even got close to the reality, never for a minute escaped shattering dullness...
Miss Cornell's stylized acting is not very imaginative and lacks deep conviction. But her technique and voice are still basically excellent. Joseph Wiseman, as the court Peeping Tom who spreads scandal, talks inexorably and monotonously--like a passing freight train. At times he varies his performance with a pseudo-emotional crescendo, usually preceded by a strained gasp. Henry Daniell, as the king, is the most polished of the performers; he has an impressive bearing and a versatile voice. But the virtues of the acting do not compensate for the essential sterility of the play...
...power without any warming up, and operates on either gasoline, kerosene, light or heavy fuel oil or bottled gas. But its fuel consumption is still much higher than that of piston engines. Boeing has road-tested the truck for 200 miles, will spend the next few months hauling heavy freight in further tests. This summer, the company will put the same kind of engine in a small boat...
While riding the rods East in 1922 to work his way through Columbia Law School, the homesick Northwesterner was tempted to turn around and go home when he talked with a mountain-loving hobo in the Chicago freight yards. A quarter-century later, in 1948, Douglas left his judicial robes behind him and took his annual trip to the Cascades. On top of Old Snowy, "the froth of life seemed to blow away." He thought of every nation's "beehives of intrigue," where "the strength of one man becomes the source of insecurity of another" and the "destruction...
Champ Carry, the hefty (6 ft., 220 Ibs.) president of Pullman, Inc. took an agonized look at his freight-car orders one day last fall. The big postwar backlog of freight-car orders had nearly disappeared, and Pullman's three freight-car plants had all but shut down. Yet Carry knew that U.S. railroads needed freight cars; more than half of the 1,762,239 cars in the U.S. are rattling antiques more than 20 years old. There was plenty of business if Carry could find" someone with the money to finance car buying for the cash-short railroads...