Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months of the year Churchill is icebound, snow-laden. Sole reason for making it a port was to reduce Western Canadian wheat-growers' freight rates to Europe. Churchill, at latitude 59°, is no farther from Liverpool than are Montreal and New York, both of which are twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction...
This year promises to be Churchill's best by a small margin. Eight ships carrying freight alone, seven more also carrying passengers are scheduled to sail before the freeze-over about Sept. 30. Costing $70 per ticket, the voyage takes from 14 to 20 days, offers a view of a part of the world where few besides explorers have been. According to the booking agent, last week's six tourists-four from Vancouver, two from Regina-were merely "curiosity seekers...
Shipped in sections on a special freight train, Vulcan broke every tackle in St. Louis before he was finally bolted together in the centre of the mines and manufacturing exhibition buildings. An inscription for the base was supplied by one of Birmingham's leading citizens, John Henry Adams...
...tragedy was not enacted in one short year. Beginning in 1922 the market for Amoskeag's coarse cottons, ginghams, denims and flannels shrank rapidly as the new market for rayons grew. More & more cotton mills were opened in the South, with a tremendous competitive advantage in labor and freight costs. Amoskeag's sales fell from $56,000,000 in 1920 to $28,000,000 in 1928; its production from 223,000,000 yd. of cloth in 1912 to 100,000,000 yd. in 1928. In 1927, when it looked as if Amoskeag would have to close, a company...
Most ironic development in Bass's career came with his spectacular, profitless raids on the dinky little Texas trains that ran from Dallas to Houston. They occurred at the height of the Granger agitation for lower freight rates, when railroads were denounced throughout the West, consequently aroused excitement out of all proportion to their importance as robberies. Afterwards Bass apparently could count on enough support among the farmers to feel sure of hiding places when pursuit grew hot, although his attacks on the railroads had not helped the farmers and scarcely hurt the carriers...