Word: deadheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haven) totaled $300,000 last year, less than half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight yard near Manhattan, but leases it to the Pennsy, which pays it a piddling $13,000 a year. This forces the subsidiary to deadhead its own cars to less accessible yards, at a cost last year of about...
...America now holds a $58,000 mortgage) have hopped all over the U.S. barnstorming for cargo to fly. President Prescott has fixed his own fat prices ($1,600 for a full-plane, coast-to-coast trip), charged shippers double the one-way price when planes have had to deadhead to Skyways' base in Los Angeles...
...Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections...