Word: freight
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...rest of the port facilities were in complete ruin-huge gas storage tanks crumpled up like discarded beer cans, power plants stripped of their heavy, concrete walls, their generators rusting slowly away beneath alternate snow and freezing rain. Here & there stood long lines of brand-new, Japanese-made freight cars, their gleaming white sides neatly marked with the insignia of the U.S. Army's Transportation Corps. An officer stared blackly out over the rubble, waved at the freight cars, tanks and stacks of other heavy equipment and said, "God, we just got most of this stuff in here...
...morning or next week, might find useful. Similar demolitions went on at the same time in other parts of the U.S. perimeter. Withdrawing 3rd Division infantrymen blew their rail and motor bridges behind them. Near Hungnam X Corps engineers blew up another railroad bridge along with almost 400 freight cars and 30 locomotives. They said they definitely weren't going to blow up the new 1950 Japanese cars. At least they had had no orders...
...five-year trusteeship drawing to a close at year's end, Chairman Crowley had good news for the home folks. The Milwaukee, he reported, was virtually a new railroad. In five years it has laid out $111.9 million for spanking new equipment: 159 diesel locomotives, 15,661 freight cars, 253 passenger cars-including the equipment of its streamlined, glass-domed crack limiteds, the Hiawathas...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...