Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tons, with a speed of about 14 knots, oil burners and all " President" ships. They are the Presidents Polk, Adams, Van Buren, Monroe, Garfield, Hayes, Harrison. The five first are now plying between New York and London, a money-losing route, and will be supplanted by freight vessels as soon as the Summer tourist season is past. The two last are plying between the Pacific Coast and the east coast of South America...
...operators should assume ten cents of the increased cost of 60 cents a ton in coal; 2) that the Coal Commission should publish a detailed analysis of costs to determine how much the operators should bear of the increase; 3) that the Interstate Commerce Commission should reconsider coal freight rates with a view to absorbing part of the extra cost of anthracite. He also in a letter to 30 state governors suggested that they take measures to prevent profiteering by wholesalers, jobbers...
...statements show an improvement in export and large imports of raw materials for manufacturing. Prospects for heavier exports are not particularly bright, however, until the European tangle begins to be unravelled. Still, a highly satisfactory domestic business is almost everywhere anticipated for the Fall, and the record movement of freight still continues...
...port . . . there can be no industry in Cuba except the American sugar industry." He proposes to tax the private roads to compensate for the additional profit made by sugar companies by having their own roads. Under these conditions the consolidated public roads could compete, improve their service, reduce freight rates perhaps...
...that Cuba's railway troubles are caused by the Island's attenuated shape. It is cheaper for sugar companies to build a short road to the coast and put their sugar directly aboard ship than to patronize the " public" railways which run lengthwise of tile country, whose freight rates are expensive and whose service is inadequate. The Tarafa bill would improve the railways at the expense of the Cuban sugar industry. As Colonel Tarafa himself pointed out, Americans are about equally heavily interested in both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said that the National City, Bank (New York) runs...