Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delivered basis, irrespective of the place of manufacture, and values them all as if they were manufactured at Pitts- burgh. This uniform valuation forms the Pittsburgh base price. The Cor- poration does not sell at the base-price. It quotes prices to which have been added the freight rate from Pittsburgh to the point of consumption. This is "Pittsburgh Plus." The mill delivering an order invoices its customer at "Pittsburgh Plus," minus the actual freight to the point of consumption...
...sale or selling in interstate commerce plates, shapes, bars, or their fabrications (wire, etc.) 1) at Pittsburgh Plus prices; 2) at prices based on any point other than that where the products are manufactured or shipped; 3) at discriminatory prices designed to lessen competition. The Commission referred to the freight charge involved by "Pittsburgh Plus" as "imaginary," indi- cated the hardships upon consumers as resultant from the fact that the Corporation produces nearly 50% of the American rolled steel...
...This man Sproule" who is anything but a self-advertiser, is apparently getting results, quietly as he always does. He came to this country with an education, an affable disposition and ability that went straight to the mark. He began as a freight clerk on the Southern Pacific. In the course of 24 years of continuous service in the company he rose to the position of Traffic Manager. Then the Guggenheims, ever watchful for talent, secured him as traffic manager−member of the executive committee for the American Smelting and Refining Co. Then the Wells Fargo Express...
...acres available for the crop. But all these new cotton territories face serious difficulties. In the upper African districts, irrigation is the problem. In Brazil, the cotton area is in the interior valleys where transportation is poor. In Argentina, the chief drawbacks are labor shortage, insect pests and high freight rates. Extensive areas in Sind and Punjab (India) will require irrigation before cotton can be grown there sucessfully...
...revenue has reached or surpassed 1923's record of $22,422,035, which compares with $4,375,373 in 1922, and amounts to $13.21 a share on the common stock, as against $2.56 the year before. The year 1923 was also a record one in the amount of freight handled...