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...carload lots. To ship three carloads or 100 did not reduce the rate be low that for one. For years the Interstate Commerce Commission has maintained that lower rates on big shipments would be free lunch for big business. On account of that, able John Lansing Beven, president of Illinois Central, was a pioneer last week. Up the I.C. tracks east of the Mississippi one of his locomotives dragged a 40-car lot of blackstrap molasses (sugar refinery residue) for 15? a cwt., although the car load rate is 17?. I.C.C. had just granted him and other Mississippi Valley rail...
...took a long time for Mr. Beven to make up his mind that such rates made good economic sense. About three years ago one of I. C.'s big customers, Commercial Solvents Corp., doubled its barge fleet. Scared I. C. chewed its cud, parleyed with Solvents Corp. for two years. In October it went to the I. C. C. with a petition for trainload rates on molasses. Month ago, I. C. C. brought forth its decision, that ". . . certain other forms of transportation which compete with the railroads can law fully, and do, give the shipper of large quantities...