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...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...
Neither State nor Church made public last week any documentary proof of anything. Blanket Fascist charges were met by blanket Papal denials...
...About 10:30 he went to his bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that he was found by his valet who entered the room to awaken him at 7 o'clock...
...Indianapolis building workmen ended a 15-day strike against a blanket 20% pay-cut and went back to their jobs when the contractors capitulated...