Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...borosilicate glass, the great disk had cooled slowly in its annealing oven. In the testing plant it had been pronounced fit for its job. 'Now it was ready for shipment. It weighed 20 tons, its complicated packing case 15 tons more. The trailer which brought it to the rail spur had taken 30 hours to move a quarter-mile...
...cumulative results of six bad railroad years, the administrator would find that during 1935 there were 16 rail-road receiverships or trusteeships.operating 29,018 miles of track. Biggest 1935 disaster was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific with 11,123 miles of track and a $449,000,000 funded debt. The 16 casualties of 1935 brought the total to 89 companies with 71,658 miles of line- almost 30% of total U. S. mileage...
...country. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis are among its ports of call. It has a heavy Pullman traffic from New York to Chicago and is a great connecting road for traffic bound from New York to the South. Furthermore, its Long Island rail-road alone carried more than 79,000,000 passengers...
...Pennsylvania has seen its income, largest of any road in the land, cut in two by Depression. It took in $731,000,000 in 1929, dropped to $380,000,000 in 1934, recovered to $400,000,000 in 1935. Yet deficits have still to appear. In 1932. dismal rail-road year, it made $13,500,000. By 1935 its profit had been stepped up to $23,800,000- third best among U. S. carriers...
...what the effect of the new rates will be. In general, the railroads welcomed the reduction. Only the New York, New Haven & Hartford, Pennsylvania and New York Central actively opposed it. Greyhound Corp. stock dropped six points. Almost everywhere present bus rates will still be lower than the new rail rates...