Word: piggybacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PIGGYBACK TRUCK trailers (TIME, Feb. 22) will be put into large-scale operation for the first time on a major Eastern trunk line within the next few months. The New York Central will put on 420 special flatcars designed to carry two highway trailers back-to-back, will spend about $5,000,000 for terminals in five cities (Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Boston, Detroit) to handle the new service...
...businesses and fat contracts for the New Haven to haul the goods. At a cost of $70 million, the New Haven has been completely dieselized and electrified, now has some 1,300 new units, including 40 self-propelled Budd cars (the largest U.S. fleet), 362 new diesel-electric locomotives. Piggyback cars for carrying trucks have been increased until they produce $2,000,000 in revenue each year (100 more, plus 115 air-conditioned passenger cars are on order for 1954), and Dumaine has torn up 340 miles of track no longer needed and rebuilt 400 miles of roadbed...
SOUTHERN Pacific has joined the New York, New Haven & Hartford in shipping truck trailers on railroad flatcars. The line is converting flatcars to handle trailers, is putting twelve piggyback cars with 240,000 Ibs. of merchandise on its Dallas-Houston, Fort Worth-Houston and Texas-Louisiana runs. ANHEUSERBusch, which opens - its new $15 million Los Angeles brewery (TIME, Oct. 26) this week, is also looking for a bigger share of the Gulf Coast market. It is buying a 150-acre tract at New Orleans, will build a $20 million brewery with a 1,000,000 bbl.-a-year capacity...
...beach at Rapallo, Italy, photographers caught a merry picture of Renato Roberto Rossellini, 2, getting a piggyback ride from his famous mother, Ingrid Bergman, treating herself to a holiday after giving birth to twin daughters two months...
...rocket was a "piggyback" combination : a small Wac Corporal set in the nose of a German V2. An earlier test the week before had been a fizzle (a fuel pump went haywire), but this time the V-2 roared up and turned east over the ocean. In one minute and 20 seconds it reached an altitude of 51,000 ft. and a speed of 1,700 m.p.h...