Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Stalin gets things done, occasionally spurring his subordinates to perform the flatly impossible, appeared last week when Commissar for Transport Lazar Kaganovich announced 13,423,000 freight car loadings for the first seven months of 1935, whereas experts had considered it impossible for him to fulfill the goal of 13,356,000 loadings set by Comrade Stalin...
...crony of Stalin, Kaganovich has lately been winning his boss around to buying some Russian railway equipment. Meanwhile, however, he had to perform the impossible to keep Stalin's favor, had to load more Russian freight cars than could be loaded-unless. This "unless" was Comrade Kaganovich's inspiration, his stroke of Bolshevik genius. Seeing that freight car loadings could not be increased unless passenger service, already inadequate, was ruthlessly curtailed, the Commissar for Transport has been busy reducing the number of Russian passenger trains, cutting out sleeping cars except those used by foreign tourists, slashing the number...
Since every Soviet citizen tries to get away from home and down to the Russian Riviera during vacation, all lodgings and food in that favorite area have been sharply upped in price this summer by the State to help Transport's Commissar discourage human transport and spur freight. Should Kaganovich ever cease to be Stalin's pet, Russians agreed last week, he can fairly be made the star defendant in a Bolshevik "Propaganda Trial" to discover what "capitalist hireling" sabotaged the entire passenger transport service of the Soviet Union...
...from which Edwin Burke derived it. Essentially, it is less a story than the portrait of a place and a period-the Erie Canal, a quarter of a century after it was opened in 1825. To shrewd observers, it was even then apparent that the canal, as the main freight route between the Midwest and the sea, was doomed by the railroads...
...convenience and necessity, which will be given automatically to those in business as of June 1. Contract carriers must obtain permits, will get them automatically if they were in business as of July 1. Others, to operate, must show cause. Complete control is given ICC over common carrier passenger & freight rates...