Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...periodicals with the greatest circulations on earth. From a humming limbo of secrecy and editorial anonymity, these two publications emerge almost simultaneously twice a year. Each copy weighs about 4 lb., costs its publisher about 75?. Yet readers get them free. The current issues would fill a freight train some ten miles long, will net the U. S. Government about $1,300,000 in postage. Although they consist entirely of advertising, they provide abundant fireside entertainment for 14,000,000 people. From Chicago fanwise over the world last week began to spread the autumn and winter editions of the mail...
...some 7,000,000 starving cattle, turned most of them into beef for the unemployed. Last week Secretary Wallace ordered the process begun again, allotted $5,000,000 as a starter, planned to buy up to 1,000,000 head. Meantime, the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized sharp cuts in freight rates on live stock shipped out of famine areas...
...does make allowance for longtime upward trends, has been above 100 for several weeks. Power production last week was the highest on record, exceeding even the previous high set last December when nights were long and there was no daylight saving. U. S. railroads last week loaded 690,716 freight cars, 21% more than in the same week of last year. Steel mills were operating at 74% of capacity, and even U. S. Steel Corp. was expected to show appreciable earnings for its common stock in the June quarter. Automobile production for June may reach 450,000 units, about...
...Eastman's favorite proposals is the consolidation of railway terminals in many cities for economy and improved service. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for example, he wants to route all six railroads serving the city into one terminal, causing the abandonment of two passenger stations, four freight depots. To compensate terminal employes who would lose their jobs, he suggested that the railroads pay them a dismissal fee, varying with length of service, but equal on the average to a year's pay. The railroads did nothing about...
...Chicago, the new All American Motor Freight Lines, recently capitalized at $1,000,000, asked the I. C. C. for permission to buy seven truck lines for $96,000, announced it will soon apply for permission to buy five more for $400,000. All American plans to confine itself to the Midwest for the time being...