Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats destroyed balance between agriculture, industry and labor. Reduce taxes; lower freight rates; improve marketing; protective tariff on farm products; restore equality of prices between farmers' sales and purchases; Government assistance in cooperative marketing...
Whatever steps may be necessary to restore balance. Efforts to reduce taxes, give steady employment and stabilise business, lower freight rates, secure sounder and more economical marketing to bring the prices of what the farmer buys nearer to the prices of what he sells. A protective tariff on farm products. Establishment of a Federal system of cooperative marketing without putting the Government into business...
...Passed a resolution authorizing the Interstate Commerce Commission to undertake a thorough survey of railroad freight rate schedules with a view to lowering rates on agricultural products...
...important bill affecting the railroads or freight rates. (Barclay Bill undisposed of in the House...
...with $7.66 in 1922. Operating expenses last year increased $28,201,551, including $10,616,283 in transportation cost, $9,530,903 in equipment maintenance, and $7,181,989 in maintenance of ways and structures. But gross revenues increased $48,550,090, of which $37,671,540 was from freight, $6,094,001 from passengers, and $1,048,543 from express service. Total gross income last year amounted...