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...BLANKET OF THE DARK?John Buchan?Houghton Mifflin...
...case under consideration was docketed as Ex Parte 103. It contained the petition of Class I railroads in the U. S. for a horizontal (i.e. blanket) 15% freight rate increase (TIME, May 18 et seq.). The first hearings were called last week for the carriers to show that they were in desperate financial straits and needed as an emergency measure more revenue to keep out of bankruptcy. That the roads had reached an economic crisis was repeated in a dozen different ways by a dozen different witnesses put on the stand by Henry Wolf Bikle who, as the carriers...
...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...