This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...tiers inside a box car. A car loaded with tobacco in the old way contained a large empty space between the top of the layer of hogsheads and the roof of the car. On the suggestion of the Railroad Administration, the shippers adopted a shorter hogshead, and then it became possible to pack cars to the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...tiers inside a box car. A car loaded with tobacco in the old way contained a large empty space between the top of the layer of hogsheads and the roof of the car. On the suggestion of the Railroad Administration, the shippers adopted a shorter hogshead, and then it became possible to pack cars to the roof. The manufacturers had been shipping such things as scythes and grain cradles with the awkward crooked handles fastened at right angles to the blades. These and other agricultural implements they took apart and did up in compact bundles. The factories removed the handles from baby carriages and packed them in with the carriage bodies. They knocked down and compactly crated wagons, wheelbarrows, and other vehicles customarily shipped on their wheels. It had been railroad practice to ship such barreled goods as molasses, oils, and tanning extracts in single tiers within cars, because a heavy upper tier might crush the barrels underneath. Care in packing offset this danger by means of protecting layers of dunnage between the upper tier of barrels and the lower. These are but a few of scores of instances of the reform in car-loading. Major General Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal, was largely responsible for the success of army packing. Having been associated with the Emergency Fleet Corporation, he understood at first hand the crisis in ocean tonnage and the necessity of utilizing to its utmost capacity every cubic foot of cargo space afloat. When he became Acting Quartermaster General, he learned something about the army packing methods then in vogue--methods inherited from the easy-going past, when shipping space seemed to be almost as limitless as the air. One of General Goethals's first acts when, as director of Purchase, Storage, ..
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