Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last June, for example, there were complaints of delivery delays in the Metz area. Investigation showed that the magazines were arriving in Metz on schedule but were being sidetracked by faulty freight handling. With the help of the local Stars and Stripes men, this problem was soon ironed out. In another case, faster delivery to Germany was solved in Paris. Previously the magazines were shipped in bulk to Frankfurt, where mail is sorted for the U.S. zone. Perret arranged to have issues of TIME sacked and addressed in Paris for individual APO designations, thereby saving further handling and delay...
...wants to force trucks off U.S. roads, since they carry 15% of the nation's freight, and are a vital part of the economy. But even some truckers realize that it is time for the trucking industry to face the fact that its own future lies in a constructive approach to the highway problem. Unless the truckers do, U.S. motorists, who far outnumber the truckers, may well insist on even tighter regulations than now bind the railroads...
...which was begun by the Coolidge Administration in 1924, was sold to St. Louis Shipbuilding and Steel Co.'s new subsidiary, Federal Waterways Corp. of Delaware, for about $9,000,000. St. Louis Shipbuilding is owned by Herman T. Pott, 58, who has never before run a river freight system, though he is the largest U.S. builder of towboats and a leading builder of barges. (In the last 10 years he has supplied 20% of I.W.C.'s new vessels...
...examples of her finest painting and sculpture, carefully packaged for a nationwide good-will tour of the U.S. In the past five months the show has drawn fascinated crowds in Washington and Manhattan; last fortnight, before doubling back to Chicago and Boston, the exhibition arrived aboard a specially refrigerated freight car for a four-week stay at the Seattle Art Museum...
...stand it took under the Democrats on price-cutting. The FTC now supports the Capehart bill, which would make price cuts by companies legal when done in "good faith" (i.e., if the cuts were necessary to meet competition). FTC is now also in favor of allowing absorption of freight charges by a seller, a practice ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in its 1948 basing point decision. (TIME...