Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FREIGHT RATE HIKE sought by U.S. railways will be opposed by representatives of 21 Midwestern, Southeastern states in Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. Opponents claim railroads' requested 15% rate increase will cost shippers $1,250,000,000 a year...
Rolling into Germany with salvage crews and empty freight cars, the Soviet conquerors of 1945 carted off everything of value. To Mother Russia went East Germany's largest factories, her atom scientists, aircraft designers and skilled laborers, goods worth $12 billion. But in 1950 the Reds decided that instead of taking out what little was left, they would let East German)-build up again and then drain off the profits. This experiment has paid off handsomely for Moscow, made East Germany the Kremlin's lustiest satellite. Last week East German production had increased to such a level that...
There is a pattern of price increases in other industries. With increasingly severe railroad car shortages, the freight industry announced that it wants a 20% package boost in freight rates, will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval in mid-January. Price boosts in other industries pushed the cost of living in September up another .3% to an all-time record 117.1% on the Labor Departments 1947-49 index of consumer prices...
...Nevertheless, Crucible's net for the first nine months stood at $8,597,020, only a little less than last year's, and Youngstown's three-quarters figure totaled $24,904,000 v. $29,247,179 last year. Last week, as autos, freight cars, tankers, schools and heavy construction scrambled for scarce steel, the industry scheduled all-out production at 101.7% of capacity and promised to end the year with a blaze...
...OCEAN FREIGHT RATES to Europe are being pushed up for second time in twelve months by brisk shipping demand. On Feb. 1 rates will rise 10% on scheduled liners plying between U.S. and West Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, French Atlantic coast...