Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dwindled as the available storage space gradually filled up, and a delegation of longshoremen's wives waited on San Francisco's Mayor Rossi with pleas to end the war. When shippers started to direct cargoes to Oakland and other Bay ports, Beck simply widened his embargo. Outbound freight was not hit so hard because it moves to the docks largely by rail, not trucks...
Through the week, from freight trains and field kitchens dotted among the tents, food gushed like gravel from a stone-crusher. Into the maws of cooking pots went some 1,500 cows, 7,000 pigs, 1,320,000 pounds of potatoes, 176,000 pounds of vegetables to come out stews and soups for the blond, Aryan party members...
...drawled, "seems to be one national railroad system. Such a system should result in a simple rate structure, no differently rated territories, uniform tariff classifications, transportation wastes reduced to a minimum, and many other manifest benefits. . . ." More significant were other remarks by Chairman Miller on the matter of railroad freight rates. Without particularizing, he declared that the I. C. C. is conducting an intensive study of the rate problem and that he himself favors a new system based solely on costs of operation instead of the present system of what the traffic will bear...
...case, as a whole the U. S. railroads are desperately in need of more net income, although last year, after deduction of $500,000,000 fixed charges it amounted to $164,0130,000, a gain of 200% over 1935. This was due largely to a 15% rise in freight traffic. Assuming that this rate of increase would continue, the I.C.C. on January i discontinued the emergency freight rates which had produced about $120,000,000 a year revenue. By last week, however, it was readily apparent that the rate of increase in earnings had not continued and the roads were...
...reached $528,000,000 against $451,000,000 last year. But since March the increase in earnings has been slowing down. Spurting sharply in January, February and March, revenues then slumped under the impact of floods and strikes. In June net earnings actually dropped below those of June 1936. Freight loadings in the first quarter were up 15.5%, in the second quarter 12.9%, in July 7.2% and in the first two weeks of August only...