Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week a man walking along placid West Main Street in Belleville, Ill. suddenly looked up in horror, saw something approaching that looked like a giant black ice cream cone and roared with the noise of a hundred freight trains. That day, the same ominous sight and sound terrified farmers and townsfolk at random points through the Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Iowa. But in Belleville, where it was to destroy some 60 dwellings, kill ten people and injure 35, last week's twister struck hardest...
...When the railroads petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15% freight rate rise last fall, motor carriers hastened to follow suit. Last week ICC tossed motor carriers the same "half a life-preserver and a book on swimming" that it gave the railroads fortnight ago-an average 5.3% increase in maximum rates...
Month ago Franklin Roosevelt was asked when he was going to have his conference with U. S. railroad men. He replied that he would not do so until the Interstate Commerce Commission announced its decision on the railroad application for a 15% freight rate rise, which he understood would be in a few days. Washington immediately took this remark as an obvious White House nudge in the commissioners' dignified ribs to hurry up and grant the rate rise before the roads folded up completely. In their own good time, last week the eleven commissioners, Mr. Mahaffie dissenting...
...railroad costs been higher, never have rates been relatively lower. In 1937 railroad fuel and material costs rose $100,000,000, taxes $60,000,000, wages $140,000,000. Income, meanwhile, was reduced 1) by the ICC elimination on Jan. 1, 1937 of some $120,000,000 in emergency freight rates granted in the Depression, 2) by a tremendous drop in traffic during the current Recession (net operating income of Class I U. S. roads was off 82% in January this year). Last fall the ICC granted rate rises on special commodities (like motors and accessories) totaling some...
Imitations of trains were given by Paul M. Hollister, who gave all the noises on the observation ear of a train leaving Pennsylvania Station, emerging from the tunnel, and passing a freight train and crossings...