Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ARTHUR FARBER Hartford, Conn...
...biggest piggybackers, the Pennsy and the New York, New Haven & Hartford, have elaborate cooperative programs to handle truck-company trailers as well as their own, provide such economical service that more and more highway companies are putting . their trailers on flatcars for trips of 500 miles or more. Drivers' wages (as high as $175 a week), highway taxes and equipment costs are so steep that some truckers are thus able to snip as much as 9? per mile from their 30?-per-mile highway costs. By going piggyback, says the Rail-Trailer Co., which solicits business for the railroads...
With such a relatively efficient Post Office handling the mails one naturally wonders why many letters from New York and environs take two days to arrive at their College destination. At this point, one must widen his field of observation, and consider the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. This strange utility is responsible for delivering the mail each day from New York to Boston on the late night train, but, according to the Superintendent in the central Cambridge Post Office, that train is as often late as it is on time, with degree of lateness varying from...
...obvious time value. The problem is a considerable one from both the post office's and the public's point of view, but there appears to be no ready solution which might come about in the next few years. It seems unlikely that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford will change their ways in the near future (the line now blames "inclement weather" for the bulk of its delays), and to start a system of twice-daily deliveries throughout the entire area is not presently feasible, according to Post Office authorities. Though such a plan would...
Thus, while over the past 150 years snow, rain and heat wave all failed to suppress the swift couriers, the New York, New Haven and Hartford has at least partially succeeded...