Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...only effective reply which the defenders could make was to night-bomb the enemy in return. R. A. F. did blast Düsseldorf, large coal, steel & freight centre, submarine bases in France, air bases everywhere in the conquered countries, the Fiat works and Royal Arsenal in Turin. But the R. A. F. was still outnumbered and the damage done was probably not equal to the damage Britain received...
...Goldendale, Wash., Brakeman Ed Barnard invited a hobo riding atop his freight train to join him in his warm caboose. "No thanks," replied the hobo. "I've got my radio rigged up here. It won't work inside...
...Forum gave Arnold the edge: NRA, 22%; Arnold, 33%; "depends," 45%. More striking were its views on particular prices. A clear majority (from 63.1% to 81.8%) reasoned that lasting recovery is impossible until the building industry acts to encourage new construction, until railroads act to stimulate greater movement of freight; and that neither builders nor railmen can stage recovery-exclusive of defense contracts-until they get their costs and prices down...
Without an instant's hesitation, out of the line of defenseless freighters and straight for the death-laden steel-clad swerved the 14,164-ton armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay, a hardy old packet of the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line which used to take freight and poor emigrants from Britain out to Australia. She had just six 6-inch guns and no armor plate over her ribs. Her commander was an Irish admiral's middle-aged son named Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan. He had promised his men that if ever they met the enemy they would face...
...Birmingham is still changing fast. Two years ago the basing point system's freight-rate differentials against Birmingham were abolished, and Birmingham, whose pig iron is $4.83 a ton cheaper than Pittsburgh's, got a green light to expand. Defense has hastened the process. Purely defense backlogs for the area total at least $90,000,000, include $8,000,000 shell contracts let last week, $32,400,000 for four destroyers in its shipyards, $23,500,000 for Reynolds Metals' aluminum plant. Though four Birmingham companies have had educational shell orders for a year and a half...