Word: rail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks to pick up or deliver freight free. There was no effective opposition to the plan. Last April the major Eastern roads started to follow suit. But on the day the new service was to begin, so loud were truckmen's howls that...
...transcontinental rates fall from $160 to $139.95 for single tickets, from $136 to $118.95 in scrip. Time is 15½ hours eastbound, 16½westbound. Minimum coast-to-coast rail fare, including a lower berth, is $113.25 for a 3½-day trip...
...glaring electric light atop a rail-guarded manhole with a red "Danger" sign broke the dark stillness of the Yard in front of Boylston Hall last night as electric company workmen toiled late to install a new giant transformer...
...sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should come. A rigid 11 p. m. curfew was clamped on the capital. Every light went out. even privileged newshawks being forbidden in the streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers had broken the rail line to Valencia. that Madrid was completely cut off. German and Italian aviators, the only people on the Iberian Peninsula who seemed to know how to set a bomb sight, had indeed struck the embankment of the Madrid-Valencia line in their strafing for Spain's Whites, but 90 minutes...
...After fighting heart-breaking weather for 2,400 befogged and snowy miles, he suddenly found his engine overheating. With great luck he encountered a French trawler, succeeded in plopping safely into the chop beside her. Gushed he by wireless next day: "I felt myself being lifted over the rail while a voice cried, 'Courage, mon brave!' I believe that, for the first time in my life, I must have fainted...