Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to the Federal Farm Board, Russia produces wheat at 30¢ per bu. The U. S. tariff would run the delivered price up to 72¢ per bu., exclusive of freight charges. The Soviet sales were reported at about 95¢ per bu. for May delivery. Delivery would be easily possible if Russia, as has been charged, were ready to take a loss to "dump...
Relief. A total of 703 counties in 19 States have been certified by the Department of Agriculture as beneficiaries of freight rate reductions on livestock feed. The American Railway Association reported that 3,733 carloads of hay and mill feed had been shipped into the stricken counties at the emergency rate. In a few States highway construction was accelerated but in others no money was available for such extra work In Iowa and Nebraska crop conditions were comparatively good and no farm credits were required...
...victory was a "triumph of good government" and the end of "Fergusonism." Nominee Sterling, sure of election, will have perfunctory opposition in November from Dr. Charles Butte, Republican gubernatorial nominee. Born poor on a southeast Texas farm, Nominee Sterling could not read or write until he was 21. From freight boat boy, he rose to keeping country store at Humble, struck oil there, organized Humble Oil Co. f(known as "Lucky Humble" because of its many gushers), sold out to Standard Oil of New Jersey for $12,000.000. Real estate and building in Houston have made him today...
...Mile. Vital to railroaders, important to all men of business, is a figure reported last week by the Bureau of Railway Economics: Class I railroads handled freight traffic amounting to 34,419.086,000 net ton miles this June, a drop of 6,320,943,000 as against June 1929. A "net ton mile" is accomplished every time one ton of freight is carried one mile. The June drop in ton miles was 15.5% compared to 1929, while the six-month average was only 11% under...
...clinkers with only one-half anthracite's ash, one-quarter its moisture; a high yield of gas and tar. Gas is salable, tar less so. Former projects have suffered through inability to obtain a balanced market for these byproducts. Prestcoke's prospects are brightest west of the Alleghenies, where freight charges handicap anthracite fatally. Even there it will meet bitter competition from fast-burning coke, gas, oil, and the new automatic stokers, which employ small sizes of bituminous coal with promising results...