Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tornado v. Train" (TIME, June 8) you say that "in the string of eleven Pullmans there were 119 passengers," etc. The inference is that the one man killed was a Pullman passenger. Such is not the fact. The unfortunate traveler rode in a day coach. Fear-stricken, he jumped through a window; the car a moment later was blown over on him. The Pullman Co. is proud of the fact that last year (1930) we carried 30.800,000 passengers 12,814,000,000 passenger miles (1,183,669,000 vehicle miles) and only one of these passengers was killed...
...TIME, June 8, under "Tornado v. Train," you tell of the accident to the Great Northern's Empire Builder, where said Builder was dumped over on its side by the tornado, and you use the expression "a wreck unique in U. S. rail-roading...
...best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...
...canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring more commerce to the railroads than they take from them. . . . I challenge the roads to produce one instance of a freight train taken off by water competition...
Efficiency. The roads have practiced every sort of economy to cut down operating costs. As proof of efficiency, they increased ton-miles per train-hour from 7,506 in 1921 to 10,839 in 1930. Freight locomotive miles per day were raised from 49.5 in 1921 to 58 in 1930, passenger locomotive miles from 103 to 116. Coal to move 1,000 tons one mile was cut from 162 Ib. in 1921 to 121 in 1930. A passenger car required 17 Ib. of coal to run a mile in 1921, 14 Ib. in 1930. Cited was Secretary of Commerce Hoover...