Word: airfreight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry was feeling no pain: with cementmakers now selling f.o.b. at their mills, the savings on freight absorption meant increased earnings. Consumers were in a different boat: with airfreight costs now added to their bills, buyers suddenly found the delivered price of cement boosted as much as 25%, depending on the distance from producer to purchaser...
...service flyers started freight lines at war's end, but only eight lines of-any consequence are still flying. The biggest of these is Slick Airways, Inc., of San Antonio. Last week, the line's young (26) president, Earl F. Slick, who is also president of Independent Airfreight Association, laid the independents' case before the President's Air Policy Commission. "If this rate goes through," he warned, "we'll all be bankrupt in six months...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, already choked with applications for new flying routes from U.S. airlines, last week disclosed that twelve land lines (truckers, bus operators and railroads) had also asked for permission to muscle into the airfreight business. The biggest: Chicago's fabulous Keeshin Freight Lines...