Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convulsion of nature. It was done by a 9-to-2 decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The South and West were brought nearer to the center of the nation and the Northeast was moved farther away. The ICC thus rearranged the U.S. by its decision to equalize freight rates, on a mileage basis, between all sections of the country except mouritain-Pacific territory...
...document that traced the history of the rate battle back to 1887. In effect, the ICC ruled that wherever manufacturers are situated - in the South, West, or East - at the same distance from a given point, they would each pay the same rate. This cracked at one blow the freight rate structure, which has influenced the economic distribution of industries, and set up a new structure which may make some of the existing distribution uneconomic...
During that time he has diverted more than 272,000 carloads of freight from one railroad to another, cleaned up the mess that Pearl Harbor made of West Coast ports, generally won the respect of railroadmen for his nimble thinking...
...likely to be the greatest wheat harvest on record; 2) he will be robbed of additional tens of thousands of cars that will be sent east with relief shipments of foodstuff for Europe; 3) if shipping is not immediately available, West Coast ports may not be able to unload freight as fast as the railroads will be able to deliver...
When Swedish pulp mills proposed a transatlantic freight rate of $8 a ton (v. $4 prewar), the War Shipping Administration suggested a rate...