Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constructing buildings as they do in West Germany," said a relief worker last week. All roads into West Berlin are blocked except two strictly controlled highways, and the city is ringed by the rifled steel of East German Volkspolizei and divisions of the Red army. Each day precisely 13 freight trains, 17 barges and 500 automobile trucks loaded with food, fuel and raw materials for West Berlin stomachs and factories are allowed to enter from West Germany. To keep West Berlin alive, the West German government allots a special stipend ($213,857,142 this year...
...FREIGHT-RATE BOOST for U.S. railroads, originally granted on a temporary basis in 1952, will be made permanent. The Interstate Commerce Commission has canceled the expiration date (Dec. 31) of the rate hikes, will grant the 12% to 15% increases indefinitely. Without the boosts, roads would have lost an estimated $900 million in revenues next year...
PIGGYBACK SHIPPING will get a big boost from the Office of Defense Mobilization. ODM has set an expansion goal of 25 "roll-on, roll-off" oceangoing vessels to be used to ferry either trailer trucks or railroad freight cars, will grant fast tax write-offs to firms building the ships until Dec. 31, 1956. Three shipping companies have already signed up to build five ships worth $14.5 million...
...FREIGHT BATTLE between American Airlines, Slick Airways and Flying Tigers is cutting transcontinental flying time. Flying Tigers, which recently bought ten Lockheed Super Constellations (TIME, Oct. 3) to match a purchase of five by Slick, will trim its east-to-west schedules to clip nearly three hours off coast-to-coast freight runs. New York manufacturers will be able to ship cargo as late as midnight, have it on West Coast store shelves before opening time next morning...
...taxes from 1955 through 1959, without getting a compensating amount of defense capacity in return. ODM agreed, found that in some cases write-off certificates, although used for facilities high on the defense list, failed to bring about expansion. Example: railroads used write-off privileges to buy new freight cars to replace older cars rather than expanding the total number of cars. Looking over the expansion goals it had set in 1951, ODM found that aluminum facilities in place, under construction, and planned will bring the yearly capacity to 1,778,000 tons, 32,000 over the goal. Steel-ingot...