Word: freight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could the price rise be justified by higher costs? Two freight-rate increases had boosted the cost of steel's raw materials; another boost in coal prices was in prospect. But scrap, which is a major cost in making steel, was selling at an average of only $27.25 a ton, compared with $43 a year ago. As for the new pension program-U.S. Steel officials could not, or would not, say what it would cost the company in the first year (guesses by outsiders ran as high as $80 million a year...
...Chase. In Iowa, investigation showed why an Anamosa-Clinton branch line freight train had been consistently running late: its crew had taken to stopping in the country to pot rabbits and quail...
Fulton Lewis briskly pointed out that General Leslie Groves was then head of the Manhattan Project. Jordan added that Hopkins "gave me instructions over the long distance telephone to expedite certain freight shipments ... I was to ... say nothing about them, even to my superior officers." Three shipments came through, of 500, 1,150 and 1,200 Ibs. Said Jordan: "All I know is that Colonel Kotikov had it listed as uranium...
...receiving set at the other end has three picture tubes. They are like black & white tubes except that each has on its face a phosphor that glows in a different basic color. Each little impulse (the colored freight cars) arriving over the beam is electronically switched to the properly colored tube. They arrive so fast that each tube-face is covered 15 times a second with a pattern of tiny dots corresponding to the blues, reds and greens in the scene being televised. The more red there is in a part of the scene (e.g., a red dress), the brighter...
...railroads, which are still making money on freight, know how to make money on passengers too, and have proved it on their main-line trains. They know that it is the uneconomical branch lines which eat up the profits. Yet state regulatory bodies, often for sentimental reasons, balk at letting them be closed down. (When the Chesapeake & Ohio sought to eliminate one, oldtimers who had not ridden it since World War I protested that they would miss the whistle...