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...miners left their jobs, most of them with money in the bank, some prepared to raise chickens and vegetables, others ready to work in factories. Manufacturers and railroadmen, who are the largest consumers of bituminous coal, refused to be alarmed. Ninety million tons are above ground, in storage, in freight cars-and, then too, the non-union mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee produce 65% of the nation's soft coal needs...
...Dornier Superwal model, with two Rolls-Royce-Conder motors, takes 21 passengers, crew of four. In tests it lifted 60 persons, a freight load greater than the ship's weight when empty...
...England has a great advantage over other parts of the country, in that it has one-fifth of the consumers of the country at its front door. New England has to pay no exhorbitant freight rates that tend to take away a great share of the profit of farming. Freight rates are so high in the west that it costs the consumer of California no more to buy Argentina products than it does to buy Iowa products. New England is without this disadvantage...
Million Cars. For railroad men the week of March 12 became significant as they learned last week that for the first time this year they had moved more than 1,000,000 cars of freight-1,005,715. Last year the first 1,000,000-car week did not occur until May, and in 1925 not until July. During the first eleven weeks of this year 10,349,326 cars were moved...
...Brooklyn freight yard a priest gave extreme unction to Brakeman Richard O'Connell. He lay caught between a derailed switch engine and a 70-ton freight car. A wheel of the car held one foot; the other was wedged in the engine pilot board. If the engine backed away, he would be ripped as men rip legs off bullfrogs. If the car rolled towards him, he would be grated over the bars of the cowcatcher. So he sprawled there, content with the priest's ministrations, hopeful that the rescuing railroad men who were jacking...