Word: diem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ernest Norris got his first railroad job as assistant agent for the Chicago & North Western at Arlington Heights, Ill. In 1902 he went with the Southern as special agent & car tracer, in the days when freight car hire was a complicated matter of mileage rather than per diem rental. He has lived in the South ever since, married a Southern girl, but never acquired the accent, remained a Republican, always suffered from the heat...
Only possible hitch in the plans, it was stated by a highly dependable authority close to official sources, lies in the refusal of Radcliffe dieticians to guarantee Miss Temple three portions per diem of Cocomalt (trade advt.) and strained spinach a la Temple, i.e., with luscious slices of hard-boiled egg. Miss Temple, it was added, has already shown the proper Radcliffe spirit by agreeing to wear flat-heeled shoes, horn-rimmed glasses and, possibly, a ribbon in her hair...
...some 2,000,000 freight cars, worth $3,000,000,000. Under the existing system of freight car distribution, railroads cooperate with one another under rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Most important rule concerns what is known as the per diem rate for foreign cars. (A freight car on its home tracks is a system car; on another company's tracks, a foreign car.) Railroads pay a per diem rate of $1 for every foreign car on their tracks. (The rate was 20? in 1902.) This money is paid as a "penalty" to the railroad owning the foreign...
...offset the tremendous empty mileage developed by this system, the American Railway Association ruled that each railroad should load idle foreign cars in preference to system cars destined for other tracks. Several railroads have "frozen" per diem agreements providing a fixed penalty period for foreign cars, usually from three to five days. Thus, foreign cars may be held, with a maximum penalty charge of $3 to $5 per car, pending such loading as may be in prospect. Empty hauls are thus substantially reduced...
...than ever before. It no longer seemed sufficient simply to cry: "Save the schools! Save the innocent children!" An emergency commission reported, first thing, that while public school enrolment had increased nearly a million since 1930, the number of teachers had decreased 15,000; the amount to cover per diem cost per child slipped from 63? to 49?: funds for building expenditures dropped from $400,000,000 to $154,000,000 annually. To some people, notably Henry Louis Mencken who belabored the pedagogs in his American Mercury last month (TIME, Feb. 20), this might have seemed a blessing. Of such...