Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sack. Standard grade 10? less. Best patent flour is retailing in Columbus today for $1.35 to $1.50 per 48-lb. sack. Spring wheat patents, $1.75 per 48-lb. sack. These facts are applicable to the flour market in any part of the country taking into account differences in freight rates. The mills do not attempt to regulate retail prices on flour or bread. . . . J. N. CAMPBELL Secretary Nebraska Millers Assn. Omaha...
...ended her 13-day visit to Canada last week (TIME, Aug. 11), sailed for home with a new tear in her fabric, one of her six motors disabled as the result of a side-flight over Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara, and with nine English and Canadian news correspondents aboard. Freight and express revenues estimated at $500,000 had to be rejected in accordance with Air Ministry orders. Only excess cargo was a bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince of Wales from Prime Minister Ferguson of Ontario...
...President held White House conferences in rapid succession. He called for detailed reports on the extent of drought damage, summoned to Washington this week the governors of the twelve hardest-hit states to set up a National Drought Commission, unify relief measures. He asked and got railroads to cut freight rates temporarily. He was deluged with advice, professional and amateur...
...sewer exploded,, leaped out and seared John Moyer, ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer was expected...
...military aircraft were released for civil works (TIME, Jan. 27). Of 88 companies engaged in commercial operations, ten are operating scheduled services over 6,984 mi. of airways. Last year Canada's air lines carried 86,242 paying passengers, 430,636 Ib. of mail, 3,903,908 Ib. of freight and express, flew...