Sentence examples for carload in from inspiring English sources

In Watchman Atticus asks Jean Louise, aka Scout: "Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters?

Unlike the honourable, principled incarnation more familiar to readers from To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee's earlier version is a much more complex and in many ways uncomfortable man; one who can say things such as, "Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theatres?

In that novel, which was in fact the first draft of Mockingbird that had been rejected by her publisher, Finch was portrayed as having been a supporter of the South's Jim Crow laws, saying at one point: "Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and ­churches and theaters?" Within minutes of the announcement of the novelist's death, encomiums began to flow.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Finch defends a black man accused of raping a white woman, but in Go Set a Watchman, the surprise sequel published by Lee last summer, he takes a different perspective on race, asking his daughter: "Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters?

The term carload in the North American context applies to those movements undertaken in separate rail vehicles which can include box cars of varying dimensions which are used primarily for higher value merchandise traffic and can be moved in single units or as blocks of vehicles to be assembled into train formations for long haul movements.

Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters?

This year, the company expects to haul as many as 230,000 carloads of fracking material, including blasting sand and steel pipe, an increase from 45,000 carloads in 2010.

"This is a business that had 25,000 carloads in the 80's and 75,000 carloads in the 70's," he said, explaining that as the aerospace industry declined on Long Island, so did the need for freight service.

In the United States, rail shipments of crude increased to nearly 234,000 carloads in 2012 from 9,500 at the beginning of the boom in 2008, according to the Association of American Railroads.

There has been a similar take-off in the United States, from about 11,000 carloads in 2009 to 234,000 last year.The network is struggling to keep up with the rapid growth in traffic.

Mark Hallman, a spokesman for Canadian National, said the railway moved 5,000 carloads of crude oil to the United States from Canada in 2011, increased that amount to 30,000 carloads in 2012 and "believes it has the scope to double this business in 2013".