Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, two months after the surrender, the first Allied ship was unloaded at a Cherbourg wharf. Its cargo: eight locomotives and 24 freight cars-to get more supplies moving...
...Discrimination against Western agriculture and industry by charging higher freight rates than Eastern railroads. CJ Collusive effort to strangle the development of pipelines, highways, waterways and air lines...
...cooperate more efficiently with each other." The Reconstruction Finance Corp., busy pouring out loans to keep the railroads alive, had nodded approval. Under the Western Agreement the railroads did what the ICC advised-they policed themselves. And since 1932 ICC has approved rate cuts that have brought the average freight tariffs in the Western territory down 17%, passenger fares...
...Busy to Argue. Western railroad operators were fighting mad at Biddle and Berge last week, but they had little time for a quarrel. Their lines were jammed with a record freight and passenger traffic. Union Pacific's president, big Bill Jeffers, took time out to roar that Berge was suffering from "Potomac fever." Joseph Hays, counsel for the W.A.R.E., said: "Mr. Biddle knows that if his charges were anything more than sheer demagoguery he could take the complaint to the ICC for speedy redress." Hays argued that Attorney General Biddle should have included ICC among the culprits, since...
...hoped to get around the fire laws by showing the movie through the window. McNeil-Naify promptly threatened to bring suit because the platform blocked the sidewalk, and took splashy newspaper ads to point out that Reno moviegoers must now suffer the indignity of "uncarpeted floors . . . the whistle of freight trains . . . static in the sound system...