Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government charged that after standardizing their products the combined bolt & nut men, controlling 95% of the business, had carried the Hoover doctrine a step too far, had fixed prices by means of discounts, allowances and "a system of freight equalization for preferred customers." Among the associated companies, which did an annual business of $75,000,000, were: Bethlehem Steel Co., Automatic Screw Machine Products Co., Erie Bolt & Nut Co.. Pacific Coast Steel Corp., Wrought Iron Co. of America. Defending counsel included James Francis Burke, counsel for the Republican National Committee, and onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller of New York...
...together, organized Six Companies, Inc. Pooling their resources they submitted a bid to the Interior Department. Last week in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur awarded the Hoover Dam contract to Six Companies as low bidder. Their price: $48,890,995.50. The U. S. is to supply concrete?20.000 freight cars of it?steel, other materials and machinery which will run the final bill for the dam and power plants up to $165,000,000. Under $5,000,000 bond, Six Companies must finish the job in 1938 or pay a penalty of $3,000 for every day they exceed...
Even to Frenchmen who knew that commercial aviation means a long, long pull. Aeropostale's showing was disappointing. Its planes carried last year only 224,000 mile-tons of freight, one-fifth of capacity. In 1929 its total receipts were but $770,000. Undoubtedly the Govern-ment had hoped for better things...
...opened for traffic. Built at a cost of $16.000,000 by Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway (Taplin-managed, Pennroad-controlled), it joins the P. & W. V. with Western Maryland, affords another direct route from Toledo and the Great Lakes to Baltimore and the Atlantic seaboard, may afford a 24-hour freight saving. If the proposed Eastern rail consolidation plan goes through, control of the P. & W. V. will be held jointly by the four eastern systems, hence the new link will be a thorn to none...
...east coast of New Zealand's, North Island, a noon last week was at its usual occupations. Housewives from the hilly suburbs to the North, in town for shopping; children at school; a few people resting in the brick Cathedral of St. John or the well ordered art museum. Freight cars from Wellington, 200 mi. southwest, were on sidings; ships were loading frozen and corned meats for export. It was a normal summer noontime...