Word: peak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World War II. The A.A.R.'s reiterated boast ("We can carry it all") will come face to face with over 150,000,000 tons of bituminous coal, which must be delivered before Christmas. The fall coal movement, coinciding with a seasonal industrial pickup, makes October the railroads' peak month of each year. This year, for the first time since 1930, October's weekly carloadings are expected to average around 1,000,000 cars...
...problem is that the U.S. has never caught up with the coal lost in last April's 29-day strike.* All through late spring and summer the U.S. Government (from wolf-crying Harold Ickes to sanguine Ralph Budd) urged coal consumers to buy ahead, avoid the fall traffic peak. Yet, in the first seven months of this year, with industrial production up 15%, total coal loadings, which usually pace production (especially in boom periods), were up less than 8%; bituminous coal production through mid-September was up only 9%. Government officials shudder at the implications of some industrial stocks...
...West Coast used to get much of its steel through the Canal, may have to choose between steel and coal in the peak carloading period. More and more aid-to-Russia (and China) will have to move westward by rail...
...week railroads, Government men and shippers held their breath to see if the railroads would squeak through October. At best, most of them expected some regional dislocations, brief but perhaps acute, and no one liked to think about the fall of 1942. Ralph Budd had estimated that the 1942 peak would require 160,000 more freight cars than there are now (other estimates went as high as 370,000 new cars). With or without a steel shortage, 160,000 is more new freight cars than have been built in any year since...
...A.A.R., proud of the steady long-term rise in efficiency of railroad operations, insists that the 1929 traffic peak could now be handled with 350,000 fewer cars. But if 1929's peak freight levels (1,200,000 cars a week) have to be handled again, that still leaves 250,000 cars for still more operational efficiency to replace...