Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased costs of self-government. They are already strapped by what they call F.C.L.-fearful cost of living. Virtually everything Alaska uses is brought in by steamer and airplane, and because the territory produces so little for ships and planes to haul profitably back to the States, the freight charges boost retail prices to alarming levels. A Seattle dollar shrinks about 19? in Juneau, 29? in Anchorage, 35? in Fairbanks. Wages consequently run 15-40% higher than comparable Stateside payrolls, and that is a factor that holds back large-scale investment from Stateside in Alaska's potential...
About half the 112 freight shipping conferences operating in U.S. foreign trade try to freeze out the independent shippers by a "dual rate" policy, i.e., rates up to 10% lower than standard for customers who use only conference ships. Isbrandtsen has refused to join such conferences, holding that they are cartels that add to the cost of foreign trade and discourage free competition. In the early 1950s the line captured 30% of cargoes between Japan and the U.S. East Coast (with only 11% of the sailings) by setting prices 10% below those of the Japan-Atlantic & Gulf Freight Conference...
...American railroads -the giant. 17,000-mile Canadian Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines and kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen blew...
...Freight carloadings in the first week of May were 26% below the year-ago level. ¶ Passenger losses dipped even deeper* than last year, when they brought a $700 million deficit...
Reigning Cats & Dogs. In St. Louis County, Mo., State Weight Inspector Arthur J. Schneider stopped a truck, ordered the driver to rearrange his freight to take excess weight off the rear axle, sympathetically changed his mind when the driver told him the cargo was eight leopards, a cheetah, eight dogs and a panther...