Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Cargo Case, most famed of railroad rate disputes, was once more opened before the I. C. C. Its essence: the demand of Pennsylvania and Ohio coal operators that freight rates to Lake Erie ports from their districts be reduced considerably below the rates for Southern coal to Lake ports...
President Hoover repeated this formula once again last week to set in motion his 13th Presidential commission. Its subject: the merchant marine. The occasion: a deep-rooted controversy within the U. S. Shipping Board over the sale of the Government-owned Black Diamond and Cosmopolitan trans-Atlantic freight-lines. For more than a year disposal of these services has been delayed while the two operating companies and the U. S. lines wrangled with the Shipping Board over purchase bids. The President said commission No. 13 would also supervise the financing and building by U. S. lines of two new Leviathan...
Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, denounced the measure. Shipping men lamented the prospect of reduced foreign trade in their bottoms, spoke of upping ocean freight rates to offset their loss. Theodore Gary of Kansas City, whom Senator Moses appointed as Republican Senatorial campaign cash collector, declared the bill was "highly detrimental" and that U. S. industries would lose more than they would gain from...
Statisticians comparing May 1930 and May 1929 business found many decreases, few increases. According to the most recent Crandall Pierce Business Index, last month showed freight car loadings down 9%, commodity prices down 6%, automobile production down 31%, pig iron production down 13%. Among the comparatively few increases were commercial failures, up 9%. Yet last week one young industry prospered and expanded, cheered by its demands an old industry. For when Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. announced that it would build a 1,250-mi. natural gas pipe line from the Texas Panhandle to Indianapolis, it evidenced not only increasing...
Last week the Ford office issued a statement, saying : "We rarely deny rumors and we do not intend to begin the practice now but this report was disseminated so widely as to call for denial. The Fords are not buying any bank stock anywhere." Prepaid Freight. With the ancient rumor of a merger between Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward once again laid low, last week there was evidence of a move of co-operation between the two. Prepayment of freight, a move originated by the two houses last summer, has been costly, now will be abandoned by both...