Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reza created the Persian Foreign Trade Department, gave it monopoly powers. Last week in Stockholm a swarthy Representative of the P. F. T. D. let important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...
...took to her kindly. On a visit to India she went roller-skating, fell, had to be bandaged up and put to bed. A Maharajah called to pay his respects. Because of Daisy's bandages they were mutually invisible, so the Ma- harajah kissed her toe through the blanket. In Egypt she was taken to see a stomach-dance; "it looked horrid." But mostly her travels were in well-marked royal grooves: visits to England, appearances in Berlin, vacations in Southern France, Switzerland...
Freight Rates. Only by a blanket percentage increase in all freight rates for all roads as was done in 1914, 1917 and 1920 can the carriers obtain the necessary relief, they said. Joint water-&-rail rates and existing differentials would be maintained. The Commission, however, was asked to approach the question not from the rate angle, necessitating protracted hearings on the "reasonableness" of each proposal, but from the broader revenue angle as an emergency step for financial relief...
...united movement for the general freight rate increase projected last month in Chicago (TIME, May 18, June i). Meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, the executives of all the important carriers of the land appointed a committee to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission within a week for blanket authority to up rates 15%. The committee: New Haven's Pelley, Milwaukee's Scandrett, Louisville & Nashville's Cole...
...which trucks compete, would not be changed. What the roads were really after was I. C. C. permission to adjust rates of their own choosing within a 15% range, thereby increasing their operating revenue by 10%. To avoid protracted arguments over individual rates, they consolidated their plan into one blanket petition for a horizontal increase for all lines...