Word: carloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communique follows: "Having received a fresh carload of black-and-tan orchids from Jackson Hole, New Hampshire, the Young Voters Boondoggling and Temperance League is in a position to donate these touching tokens. Tomorrow's orchid goes to the lucky newly-wed, James Michael Curley, and will be presented on the State House steps by our post commander...
...Christmas gifts in August, but the market for Christmas trees never opens until after Thanksgiving. Last week long flatcars laden with evergreens and snow began to roll into New York and Chicago, focal points of the Christmas tree business. In the four weeks before Dec. 25, at least 400 carloads will be sold in New York, 250 in Chicago. Hundreds of carloads will be sold off the sidings in other cities, bringing U. S. tree dealers a total business of perhaps $10,000,000. Of the profit there can be no certainty. A carload of Christmas trees the day after...
Christmas Tree King in Chicago is a genial Greek named Gust Relias, who will sell this year about 50 carloads of trees. A produce dealer like Fred Vahlsing, his mainstay is tomatoes. If Gust Relias is lucky this year, as he usually is, he will clear $20,000 on Christmas trees before Dec. 25. At the Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard...
...Class 1 U. S. railroads carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks...
...railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio may provide free store-to-door service, offer the 5? self-delivery discount. Key to the decision-a signal victory for the railroads-was the discovery by the I. C. C. that less-than-carload shipments had risen briskly in the West and Southwest, thus proving that the public wanted the service...