Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE will be eased by Federal Court decision against "slow freight" merchandizing by lumber companies. Upholding ICC, court ruled it illegal for shippers to send lumber to Eastern markets by roundabout routes while still negotiating sales with prospective buyers, thus using freight cars as rolling warehouses...
CANNED VEGETABLES are going up. Canners and freezers currently negotiating contracts for their 1956 pack report paying up to 35% more for tomatoes, from 10% to 15% more for celery, spinach and cauliflower plus higher costs for tin cans, wages and freight...
...wage increase, possibly as high as 60? an hour. Even if the Steelworkers get as much as 20? an hour, the union claims that it will cost the industry only an additional $4.00 per ton. While other costs are also climbing-iron ore is up 7.4% since July, railroad freight 7%, scrap iron 83.5%-the total increase still falls well short of the $12-to-$15per-ton increase the industry wants. Thus, while costs will eat up part of any price boost, the bulk of it will go to pay for added capacity. And it is here that the industry...
...temporary hideout. Their kindly landlady eventually discovers what the quintet actually is, but not one of the grim crooks summons enough nerve to eliminate this liability in old lace. Unable to kill her, the frantic thieves fall out. Luckily a railroad bridge is handy; bodies are dumped into passing freight trains with delightful regularity to the solemn accompaniment of pompous funeral marches...
...total: about $2.3 billion), outsell competitors' checks three to one. Money orders, available at 24,330 outlets (v. 12,800 in 1943), have doubled. Loans to businesses by the company's foreign banking business have increased 220% since 1953. The company's 86-year-old foreign freight-forwarding operation has become the world's biggest, lands many of the world's oddest shipping assignments e.g., elephants from India, orchids from England...