Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most big corporations own & operate the little switching locomotives that scuttle around within the boundaries of their plants. The railroads merely deliver and collect freight cars at the company gates. That practice eliminates the annoyance of having outside locomotives chugging about the works at odd hours, allows manufacturers to enforce their own rules against fire hazards, minimizes the opportunities for industrial espionage...
...Jones's Communism-We Demand, Garbage Eaters, Demonstration, The New Deal. There was also unmistakable talent and power. Notable was American Justice, a vivid picture of a prostitute who had been lynched by hooded Ku-Kluxers. St. Louis and environs were there in fat wheat fields, freight sidings, Second and Biddle Streets, Missouri River. Chimed the critics: ''An auspicious affair, uneven in quality but interesting throughout and full of promise...
...famed old Southern Cross to fly the stormy Tasman Sea to Wellington, N. Z. Halfway across, the starboard propeller broke off, part of a motor fell into the sea. With the other two motors sputtering, the ship lost altitude rapidly. Sir Charles threw 14,000 lb. of freight overboard, then 34,000 pieces of Jubilee mail. When the Southern Cross continued falling, Sir Charles sent out an SOS, added: "Port motor gone now. . . . Afraid...
...booklet giving a startling answer-Imports. This conclusion was based on findings indicating that the average cost of imported goods landed in the U. S. represents only 30% of their ultimate retail value. The other 70% is spent in the U. S. for customs duties, dock labor, drayage, freight, advertising, and the services of wholesaler and retailer. Even excluding duties, more than one-half the retail price of imported goods is absorbed in moving them from customs house to consumer...
...threatening to sue on the ground that Wirephoto was sold to him by misrepresentation. The sales talk was that his Hearst competitors were about to buy it. If he should win, and the rest of the ten get ants in their pants and run out-you pay the freight-because the Wirephoto contracts do not hold the users jointly and severally liable. I merely suggest that the intelligent thing to do is protect your own cash drawer." Shaking his grey mane, he shouted: "Break away from the throne long enough to show you have some independence left...