Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring more commerce to the railroads than they take from them. . . . I challenge the roads to produce one instance of a freight train taken off by water competition...
General Ashburn's waterway party at Peoria, nevertheless, stood for one of four major reasons why the railroads of the land, after a month of agitation, formally petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission last week for a 15% freight rate increase. The three other reasons are: Depression, motor trucks, pipelines. At their Manhattan meeting fortnight ago (TIME, June 22) the carrier executives named three of their colleagues to approach the I. C. C. Representing the Eastern roads was big, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, who rose from Illinois school-teaching to head New York, New Haven & Hartford. Henry Alexander Scandrett, whose long...
Efficiency. The roads have practiced every sort of economy to cut down operating costs. As proof of efficiency, they increased ton-miles per train-hour from 7,506 in 1921 to 10,839 in 1930. Freight locomotive miles per day were raised from 49.5 in 1921 to 58 in 1930, passenger locomotive miles from 103 to 116. Coal to move 1,000 tons one mile was cut from 162 Ib. in 1921 to 121 in 1930. A passenger car required 17 Ib. of coal to run a mile in 1921, 14 Ib. in 1930. Cited was Secretary of Commerce Hoover...
...increased five fold. Some 10,000 visitors swarmed to town to be on hand for the trial of nine itinerant Negroes who had been charged with assaulting two white girls. The girls, clad in overalls and accompanied by seven white men, had been '"bumming" their way in a freight car from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Huntsville, Ala., when the Negroes, aged from 14 to 21, boarded the train, pitched out five of the young women's companions, knocked the other two unconscious. Then, the girls said, they were raped. Their assailants were surrounded, overcome by a posse when...
...Andrew William Mellon, their first order was for the Marshall Field store in Chicago. Last week McClintic-Marshall, now a Bethlehem subsidiary, received a 25,000 ton order for the new Marshall Field Estate office building, Chicago, which will be 42 stories high. The steel will be shipped by freight, not by express as was done for the first order...