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...freight engine hauled a carload of coal into Kohler, Wis. one day last week. Little did the engineer at the throttle realize how much fuel he was bringing to flames which were to change an industrial paradise into an industrial hell...
...Chicago but handy for Wall Streeters is the second largest-Manhattan's old Mercantile Exchange, where chalk marks on the butter board have made many a fortune and where some 450 brokers trade eggs as "Fresh Gathered Firsts," "White Standards," "Dirties." Unit of futures trading is a carload lot-300 tubs of butter, about 19,200 lb.; 400 cases of eggs of 30 dozen each. Margin requirement for a carload of butter...
Business for the nation's storekeepers was better last week. Warm-weather buying gave a little fillip to retail trade, which has just about held its own since April. Merchants in the drought districts, however, were demanding 50% cancellation clauses in their contracts. Carloadings were still nearly 13% above the same week of the year before but loadings of less than carload lots, almost wholly consumer merchandise, dropped 20,000 cars from the week before. Ore & coke for the steel industry, madly piling up inventories in anticipation of strikes, accounted for no small part of the carloading gain...
After expressing his opinion that Widener was as interesting as the Germanic Museum. His Excellency drove around the subway station and back to Boston, escorted by two motorcycle officers a carload of Boston policemen a pair of German detectives, the German consul in Boston, and an attache of the Embassy...
Washington, March 22--Complete re-organization of the nation's facilities for handling freight in less than carload lots, with rail and truck transportation co-ordinated, is proposed in a report made public tonight by Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-ordinator of transportation...