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Word: piggybacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haven shows a $3,300,000 jump in operating income this year, de spite a $1,400,000 drop in passenger revenue. The improvement is at least partly the result of stepped-up freight service, e.g., interline piggyback service (a phrase that wryly amuses sardonic commuters), which was extended last week to the Midwest. The New Haven has laid 27,000 tons of new main-line track in 1955. But it has also shaved its maintenance bill. To maintain 3,200 miles of track and hundreds of bridges and stations, it spent $11,484,819 for the first eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Pigs & Pigs | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...PIGGYBACK SHIPPING will get a big boost from the Office of Defense Mobilization. ODM has set an expansion goal of 25 "roll-on, roll-off" oceangoing vessels to be used to ferry either trailer trucks or railroad freight cars, will grant fast tax write-offs to firms building the ships until Dec. 31, 1956. Three shipping companies have already signed up to build five ships worth $14.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...PIGGYBACK TRANSPORT of truck trailers on railroad flatcars is working so well that Santa Fe and Chicago & North Western, which previously offered only limited service, will expand it greatly. Santa Fe is adding a Chicago-Kansas City run and a Los Angeles-San Diego service; Chicago & North Western will extend its Chicago-Milwaukee run to Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...PIGGYBACK railroading, temporarily checked by an ICC order four weeks ago, now has the commission's O.K. Though truckers have complained about proposed rates of six railroads for carrying loaded trailers on flatcars, the ICC decided to give their new service a green light, while the rate discussion continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Many problems must still be ironed out before piggybacking can cash in on its prospects. The Interstate Commerce Commission will soon hold hearings to decide such basic issues as rates and Government regulation. Another unknown is the final stand to be taken by Dave Beck's Teamsters Union. The Teamsters opposed piggybacking on the New Haven, have been restrained from disrupting it only by a court injunction. But Beck, who has gone along with the shipment of trailers by water, now seems resigned. Says he: "We have no objections to piggybacking or any other form of transportation as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PIGGYBACKING | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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