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However dubious some departments of U. S. business may appear this fall, the movement of freight is almost all that could be desired. A large volume of freight is being transported each week; and the railroads are handling it very efficiently and with very fair profits. The week ending Oct. 11 set a new high record for 1924 with 1,088,462 cars loaded-1,015 cars above the previous high total for the year, and only 9,031 cars below the high record for all time of 1,097,493 cars, established during the week ending Sept...
...Miles. The ZR-3 reached Lakehurst, N. J., without a mishap, after a flight of 5,060 miles from Friedrichshafen in South Germany. She broke every record of distance and speed for airships of any type, from any country. For the first time, mail and freight from Berlin reached Manhattan in less than five days: messages of goodwill, a tabloid edition of the VÖssische Zeitung, a sack of 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's famed department store, a walking doll for Major Frank M. Kennedy's little daughter...
...German experience?made a journey nearly twice as long, at an average speed of 60 m.p.h. Far from having no gas left on arrival, she could have gone another 3,000 miles. Bringing only 32 men, she could have just as easily carried 54 and 15 tons of freight. Except for a rent in a gas cell (and that rapidly repaired), she arrived in perfect condition...
...total for the week of 1,087,447 cars, to begin with, is the highest for this year and third highest in the history of the country. Grain loadings at 69,289 cars constituted a new high record for all time. Loadings for miscellaneous freight at 405,436 is another such record; and merchandise loadings at 258,458 cars is a third. Lastly, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1,013,184 loaded and empty cars were handled...
...lowlier boats, hard on the starboard side. "Left," signaled Commander Landsdowne on the bridge; the rudders turned, the Shenandoah paused, writhed, and came around, her propellers biting the wind. The peril was left behind; so also, for a moment, was the course. Then the little light of a freight train that labored along far below pointed out the way, which lay directly along the route of the Texas Pacific R. R. After midnight, the ship -that haughty ship that almost stubbed its toe on a mountain peak-reached San Diego and the Pacific...