Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said good-by to his girl, and went out to finish his education on the road. Slowly he hoboed his way to California, taking jobs by the way when he felt like it or had to. Before he got there he saw his pal cut in two by a freight car. After one voyage as a sailor he decided it was time to learn a trade, fixed on bricklaying. ("But there's diffulgultees getting into the bricklaying game, what I mean. You should of seen the runaround they hands me.") Eventually, in Chicago, he wangled his way into...
...Hudson River Night Line used to carry some 200,000 passengers. 20,000 automobiles, 175,000 tons of freight annually between New York and Albany before it went bankrupt. Its four passenger ships are the finest of their kind afloat. The Berkshire, world's largest river steamer, accommodates 2.400 passengers, has 413 staterooms. Night liners take 12 hours to cover their 160-mile route. Last week Buyer Rosoff promised to build "swell new boats," put the line on its sea-legs...
After six months of hearings and cogitation, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week turned down the plea of the 149 Class I railroads for a 10% increase in freight rates, which the carriers claimed would up their revenues as a whole by $172,000,000. In the 5-to-4 decision, however, the Commissioners granted certain emergency surcharges on a long list of specified commodities which may increase railroad revenues...
...Owner Bernstein was soon to receive a rude jolt. The North Atlantic Freight Conference, meeting in Manhattan, refused him membership on the ground that he had violated an agreement by buying Red Star Line and thus entering the general cargo field. With threats of a freight rate war on the horizon, bewildered Arnold Bernstein cabled a protest to the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau, felt sure the new "misunderstanding" would be straightened out, planned to travel to the U. S. next month...
...Chicago last week rumbled 102 freight cars carrying 3,000 tons of one of the most widely circulated catalogs on earth. One-third of the total issue of Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Spring-Summer number, it was the biggest single shipment of printed matter the railroads had ever handled in two days...