Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial advantage of the East & North could not be pinned on transportation costs alone. Industry had grown and spread there for many reasons. But in 1945 the ICC agreed that freight rates helped to preserve the advantage. The ICC ordered freight rates on manufactured goods raised 10% in the East, cut 10% everywhere else east of the Rockies...
After the second drink of bourbon, a Southerner is apt to start talking about those awful freight rates. The subject is no joke in the South. For Southerners claim, and with rebel yells, that discriminatory freight rates have stunted their economic growth and made them mere colonials of the imperial East...
Sound Reasoning. In Buffalo, the City Court denied Landlady Anna Kaitz the right to evict Hyman N. Barden because his snoring sounds like "a locomotive pulling freight cars up a grade...
...fellow citizens won't be satisfied till New Orleans rivals New York, to which it is now a poor second in dollar volume, fourth in tonnage. They argue that its loading facilities are the most efficient in the land; ships can dock without tugs and a ton of freight can be loaded for $1.03, compared to $1.66 in New York...
...hustled over to the Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. office, learned that it cost 2? a pound to fly freight to Wailuku on the island of Maui, 126 miles away. Dodds hopped over to Wailuku and made a deal with Manager Joe Gehring of the Snow White Laundry to handle all the laundry Dodds could fly over. Then Dodds bought a used truck, rounded up all of Hilo's dirty laundry and had it flown to Wailuku...