Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Needs. "The Government must aid him. It must obtain for him lower freight rates. It must in effective fashion scrutinize the spread between production and consumption. It must not only promote cooperation among the farmers themselves, but itself must sympathetically cooperate with them...
...recent record freight traffic and signs of its likely continuance; 4) a conservative and economical administration in Washington; 5) economic recovery in Europe, clearly beginning despite Germany and Russia...
...Harbor Pilot describes the tossing existence of that strange race of minor vikings, veteran pinochlers all. The Michael J. Powers Association portrays the glad-hand life of a typical East Side boss-derby-hatted ruler over 40,000 would-be Americans. The Car-Yard and the gigantic adventure of freight-smoke and bells-the places the dusty freight-cars have been, the things they have seen! The life of a trackwalker on the subway, dodging 200 cannonball flyers a day for tiny wages-the sleights of a push cart man -the sandwichmen, those biting commentators upon our modern scheme...
...voluntary consolidations, both regional and route, and providing Government machinery to aid and stimulate such action, always subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission. . . . Consolidation appears to be the only feasible method for the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation with an opportunity so to adjust freight rates as to meet such temporary conditions as now prevail in some agricultural sections...
...permanent value in establishing agriculture. Simple and direct methods put into operation by the farmer himself are the only real sources of restoration. Indirectly the farmer must be relieved by a reduction of national and local taxation. He must be assisted by the reorganization of the freight rate structure, which could reduce charges on his production. To make this fully effective there ought to be railroad consolidations. Cheaper fertilizers must be provided. . . . Unless we can meet the world market at a profit, we must stop raising for export. Organization would help to reduce acreage...