Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general opening-up of the southeastern states which is now going on. In the East, the roads did quite well with the exception of the anthracite carriers. Western roads, however, continued to lag behind, partly as a result of competition with the Panama Canal, partly from low freight rates...
Agriculture. Secretary Jardine declared in favor of revising freight rates on agricultural products; for encouragement of co-operative farming; for an improved system utilizing unappropriated public lands. He declared that gross farm income for 1924-1925 was $12,400,000,000 greater (7% greater) than last year; that the farm population has decreased 182,000 (.6%), to 31,134,000; that only 29 out of 1,000 farmers are rich enough to pay income taxes; that 553,000 farmers own radio sets; that the average family income on the farm is $1,504, of which $634 is furnished in food...
...Florida this season are surpassing anything previously known. The southern state can be reached by automobile, by rail, by boat.Yet this does not seem to mitigate the traffic jam on the southern railroads. Waiting two weeks for Pullman accommodations to Florida is said to be the normal experience. Freight conditions are even worse. All summer most of the Florida lines have been running on full winter schedule, and now, with the advent of the real season for visiting Florida, freight piles up despite every effort of the railroads...
According to officials of the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, freight congestion at Jacksonville-rightly known as the gateway to Florida-has backed up traffic as far north as Savannah and Atlanta. Indeed ever since Oct. 29 the Seaboard has found it necessary to declare an embargo on all carload freight except food for human and animal consumption, railway supplies, tank cars and petroleum products. After elaborate precautions, householders can get less than carload lots of household effects through in about three weeks. An especial dearth of automobiles in Florida is reported, owing...
...well known that large amounts of builders' supplies are headed for Florida to substantiate the dreams of local realtors and their customers. Apparently, however, the freight congestion is going to slow up construction activities in Florida for this winter...