Word: freights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exploration work in the wilderness everything had to be flown in, from beef to bulldozers. At first, air freight cost Hollinger 73? a pound. By last April Jules Timmins had his own airlift operating from Seven Islands to the airstrip at Knob Lake. This season it carried 750 tons, at an average cost of 7? a pound...
...potato. Potatoes from Canada, which also had a surplus, were flooding the U.S., underselling the propped-up domestic spud. In Portland, Maine, right in the nation's own potato patch, Canadian potatoes were about 40? a 100 Ibs. (15%) cheaper, despite a duty of 37½?; and 43? freight. Maine so far this season has shipped only 133 carloads of potatoes (v. 483 at this time last year), while Canada had sent 398 carloads into...
Prayers & Freight Rates. In its broad outlines, Remembrance Rock seems the sort of book that U.S. critics have always asked for. It is an attempt to find imaginative meanings and an emotional reality in the sweep of U.S. history, to evoke that "usable past" which critics have felt might be a New World substitute for the age-old traditions and usages of Europe. No one would seem better equipped than Carl Sandburg to write it, both because of his own poetry and the historical knowledge that went into the composition of his life of Lincoln...
Throughout Remembrance Rock there are the sort of things one has come to expect from Sandburg-the jokes and popular songs, the historical information on revival meetings and freight rates, the extemporaneous prayers, some of which are simple and moving. A book composed of them might actually have been what Remembrance Rock attempted...
...Heavy Freight. The railroads, whose freight rates have gone up 41 to 43% since war's end, will ask ICC for another 8% boost, railroad traffic executives decided at a Chicago meeting. If granted, the increase would add another $400 million to the nation's freight bill. (The total increase so far: $2.1 to $2.5 billion...