Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a tonnage of 60,000,000 in transatlantic service, and there are but 40,000,000 tons of freight to be carried. Such a situation cannot be prolonged...
...City of Baltimore, first transatlantic passenger ship to be documented out of Baltimore since the clippers, first sailing of the new Baltimore Mail Steamship Co. formed last year by interests including Baltimore Trust, Pennsylvania RR., Roosevelt Steamship Co. On Oct. 15 the line will begin a weekly transatlantic freight-passenger-mail service...
Submarine's Freight to Dollar. Into the fold of the big Dollar Line fleet last week steamed 22 freight vessels. They had just been bought from Transmarine Line for $400,000. Transmarine is a subsidiary of Submarine Boat Corp. which was formed in 1915, made money during the War, made its permanent dive into the sea of losses in 1925. In 1929 Submarine Boat, still submerged in losses, crashed into a receivership. Shippingmen thought it unlikely that the Dollar Line would place Transmarine's vessels back in the well-served intercoastal route from which they were withdrawn...
...Freight Rates. Only by a blanket percentage increase in all freight rates for all roads as was done in 1914, 1917 and 1920 can the carriers obtain the necessary relief, they said. Joint water-&-rail rates and existing differentials would be maintained. The Commission, however, was asked to approach the question not from the rate angle, necessitating protracted hearings on the "reasonableness" of each proposal, but from the broader revenue angle as an emergency step for financial relief...
...Guilty," mumbled the porcine racketeer. Having thus made himself liable to 34 years imprisonment and $90,000 in fines arising from charges brought during the previous fortnight (TIME, June 15, 22), Public Enemy Capone ("Snorkey" to his cronies), attired in a sulphur- colored suit, was hurried off to the freight elevator remarking that he "hoped everybody was satisfied...