Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good case, the President took five minutes out in a press conference to explain why the tariff-pampered steel industry had small ground for complaint. Obliged to bid 15% under domestic producers, to pay a tariff duty of roughly 25% ad valorem, to pay insurance and freight on shipments across the ocean, any foreigner who got PWA business would have to be satisfied with only about half of the fat prices demanded by U. S. producers...
...Foundry, Pullman-Standard Manufacturing Co., General American Car Co. and Bethlehem Steel Co., C. & O. ordered 5,000 50-ton steel hopper coal cars, 75 steel underframe flat cars and 50 single deck stock cars-a total of 5,125 units, nearly four times as much as all the freight cars ordered by all the other railroads in the land to date this year...
...great inventors of the 19th Century. He was knighted by the Emperor of Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales...
...Committee of Savannah, Inc., Chemist Herty succeeded in making enough pine-pulp paper for one run of a little Georgia weekly called the Soperton News. Later that year a group of nine Georgia dailies simultaneously ran off one day's edition on all-Georgia newsprint. The newspapers paid freight to and from Canada on 25 tons of local pine pulp to be manufactured there on high-speed paper machines...
...long time, however, a few big companies have bulldozed the carriers into paying them for operating their own equipment, arguing that freight rates were supposed to cover such switching and "spotting" service. And from 1927 to 1931 these few companies extracted from the railroads $9,000,000 in rebates for performing for themselves a job which they would not permit the railroads to do. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission, ruling such payment illegal, ordered the carriers to cease & desist. Wall Street chuckled at the list of manufacturers immediately affected by the I. C. C. order: almost all were plants...