Word: carloads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this instance the screws were being put on old Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio by Frederick Williamson's New York Central. The screwdriver was Universal Carloading & Distributing Co., biggest operating subsidiary of the biggest freight forwarding company in the land, U. S. Freight Co. Universal's business consists of collecting small freight shipments at strategically located terminals, consolidating the assorted packages into carload lots, dispatching the loaded cars to another Universal terminal, where the carload is unscrambled, the goods delivered to their respective consignees...
...profit a forwarding company looks solely to the spread between the lower freight rate on full car shipments and the higher rate on less-than-carload lots ("l.c.l."). In practice the forwarding companies charge something less than the going l.c.l. rates, which makes their service more attractive to shippers than ordinary railroad service. Last year U. S. Freight took in about $40,000,000 from shippers, paid out in actual transportation charges about $32,000,000, most of which went to the railroads. Handling the innumerable small pieces of freight cost another $7,000,000, and when...
...hands of a railroad a freight forwarding company is not only a means of getting business for itself but also an effective weapon to use on competitors. Through, its routing power, a freight forwarder may divert its carload shipments from one road to another. That, the I. C. C. discovered last week, was precisely what Universal was currently doing. The business it used to give to Baltimore & Ohio was being diverted as rapidly as possible to Pennsylvania...
According to the Commission the best price that a retailer could get from Bird on a certain type of rug was $4.24 in lots of 100 rolls or more. Ward got them for $3.64 in carload lots. Even when delivered in small lots to Ward's retail stores the price was only $3.82. Independent wholesalers, however, got practically as good terms as the big mail order house...
...sent one Anna Mesina, 34, because she has for three years pestered Crooner Rudy Vallee by visiting his office, announcing that he is her husband, father of her six children. Sold in Los Angeles for a U. S. stock show record price of 35? per lb. was a carload of William Randolph Hearst's prize Hereford cattle...