Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania Railroad Co., which gets fat freight income from coal, asserted that State industries might be robbed of much-needed revenue. Steelman Wolcott replied that he bought only 55,000 tons of Pennsylvania coal a year, anyway (plus 20,000 tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons...
...annually, one of them to be an airline pilot. To the authority was entrusted control over mail subsidies, with authority to fix rates, determine routes on request and recommendation from the Post Office Department and designate carriers. The authority was also to set maximum passenger and freight rates as the I.C.C. does for rail and bus carriers, and enfranchise existing airlines with certificates of convenience and necessity, continuing all present mail contracts during good airline behavior...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
...Started an investigation of freight rates for farm products. A favorite thesis of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace is that freight rates should rise in good times, fall in bad. Under the new AAA set up by Congress five months ago, he was authorized to create a division of transportation in the Department of Agriculture with power to plead before the ICC. Last week Secretary Wallace started the ball rolling by putting Dr. Ralph...
Dewey in charge of the department, assigned to work out a program of flexible freight rates for farm products. Because of the present state of U. S. railroading. no immediate demands for lower rates will be made. Dr. Dewey, sedate, brown-haired, 37, got his Ph.D. at University of Michigan, made special studies of transportation and public utilities, has lately been chief of the division of transportation for the Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...