Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the common, has been held by a voting trust. The trust was terminated last month, and the bankers bought their block of preferred from private owners, the Rogers family presumably, since the founder's heirs virtually owned the Virginian outright. No new money for the rich carrier was involved...
...docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest of any major U. S. carrier (last year: 46%). Chesapeake & Ohio, another model road with enormous coal tonnage, is proud of a ratio between outgo and intake on operations...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Substitute Letter Carrier Suss S. Scalo was held in U. S. District Court on the charge that when he found he did not have time to deliver mail he burnt it to save red tape...
...three hundred concubines gave him ample opportunity to speak authoritatively on that subject. His reorganization of the internal administration of his kingdom; his wise utilization of the control of the caravan routes that led from Egypt and Arabia to Phoenicia and Syria; his great commercial undertakings as middleman and carrier; his zeal for monoplies; and all in all with his faith in the Lord laid the foundations of his vast national wealth and showed his people and the world that indeed here, as the scriptures says...
...revenues "optimistic," the Commission was unable to certify, as it must do by law, that the road had reasonable expectations of meeting its fixed charges without financial reorganization. It was the first time that the I. C. C. had ever blocked an RFC loan to a major carrier...