Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facilities for agricultural regions. Another was a great impulse towards diversified farming and more scientific methods. Another was a boost for cooperative marketing. Another was a farm bloc, then an insurgent bloc, and finally a third ticket in politics. Another was the cry that the railways are overcapitalized and freight rates need reducing...
...Freight Rates. The farmers' demand for lower freight rates, which was the one direct and easy way they could see of saving themselves money, will also be affected by higher prices. With economic pressure lessening, it is only logical that the demand should grow less insistent. More directly important in its bearing is the attitude which the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken on account of increased grain prices. The Commission had been considering whether freight rates were not too high in relation to the value of farm products hauled. Prices having risen, the Commission decided that freight rates need...
...That is what Director Clarence Brown did, the story chosen being that of an honest, overalled signalman and his wife, whose hair-raising vicissitudes, domestic and vocational, are caused by a hulking railroad sheik. Punished once for snatching kisses, this sheik chooses a stormy night for his revenge. Runaway freight cars endanger the Limited, occupy the signalman, give time for the resheiking of the signalman's brave wife. The wreck is a weak fake, but fighting, business, and minor characters all swell the picture's score...
Railroads. The Esch-Cummins Act of 1920 promised cheaper freight rates, improved service, better labor conditions, peace between employer and employees, fair return to railways on their investments. Democrats favor these aims but contend the Act has not achieved them...
Readjustment of freight rates giving lower rates to bulky, low-priced commodities, farm produce, coal, ore, etc., and placing the higher rates upon more valuable, less bulky freight...