freight-car

With no national income accounts, Hoover had to rely on fragmentary indicators such as freight-car loadings, steel production, and the gyrations of the New York Stock Exchange.

Misleading Indicator 2009

With no national income accounts, Hoover had to rely on fragmentary indicators such as freight-car loadings, steel production, and the gyrations of the New York Stock Exchange.

Misleading Indicator 2009

With no national income accounts, Hoover had to rely on fragmentary indicators such as freight-car loadings, steel production, and the gyrations of the New York Stock Exchange.

Misleading Indicator 2009

For instance, Western Europe's supermarkets are just a few hours 'freight-car ride from Eastern Europe with its fertile farms.

Why Gorbachev Is A Sideshow 2008

Shares of the Chicago-based freight-car maker jumped 3.29, or 15%, to 24.79 after it reported third-quarter net income that came in well above what analysts had anticipated.

OfficeMax Shakes Off Lehman Ills; FreightCar Rolls 2008

His oldest boy, Sebastian, or “Bass,” as his associates transformed it, worked as an apprentice to a local freight-car builder, but received only four dollars a week.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

He had vaguely expected that the trip South would be made in a freight-car, in one end of which would stand eight horses and in the other forty men.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

The slime Smelled like a freight-car load of rotting peppermints.

In Alien Hands Shatner, William 1997

Now he stood on the freight-car roof, facing the cliff, both hands pressed to his heart as if he were a character in a Victorian novel, and leaned forward slightly, as though impatient to be gone.

Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

At the open door of the freight-car stood the unsuspecting turkey, and looked meditatively out on the landscape and at the two figures on the wash-tub.

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various