Word: cwt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free lunch for big business. On account of that, able John Lansing Beven, president of Illinois Central, was a pioneer last week. Up the I.C. tracks east of the Mississippi one of his locomotives dragged a 40-car lot of blackstrap molasses (sugar refinery residue) for 15? a cwt., although the car load rate is 17?. I.C.C. had just granted him and other Mississippi Valley rail roaders the right to quote trainload rates on blackstrap...