Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bargain Hunters. Some dealers charged their troubles to bootlegging or the race for first place between Ford and Chevrolet rather than to their own lack of sales enterprise. Denver Chevrolet Dealer Bud Viner blamed his average $275 discount on bootleggers who take advantage of Denver's freight rate ($150 from Detroit) to bring in cars by tow. Said he: "There are more new cars on used-car lots in Denver than in new-car dealer showrooms." But the big reason for price cuts was that buyers became accustomed to them in the last year...
...Losing End. Since under the nationalization act the railway system was supposed to pay for itself, the British Transport Commission could not raise wages without raising fares and freight rates-which would antagonize other voters and raise the price of Britain's exports. Other workers got raises. But the railwaymen were made to feel that any demand for higher wages was an unpatriotic act. Four years ago "Big Jim" Campbell, amiable, earnest chief of the 400,000-man National Union of Railwaymen, said: "The men are sick, sore and sorry. They feel they are at the losing...
...adults, although all have jobs at a higher level than the general population, too many are working at jobs (e.g., machine operator, mail carrier, freight handler) that do not utilize their full abilities...
...Imperialism." The world market was high as a result of the Korean war, and with their foreign exchange the inexperienced Indonesians bought thousands of automobiles for their government officials, air-conditioned cars and diesel engines for a railroad system that was pulling only half its normal amount of freight. The world market fell and Indonesia was left with a monetary inflation 25 times prewar level...
...occasion (TIME, Nov. 29), the new regulations officially set a new differential of less than 10%. Under the new order, a domestic bid can be thrown out in favor of a foreign company if 1) the domestic bid is more than 106% of the foreign delivered price (including tariff, freight in the U.S., etc.), or 2) exceeds the delivered-price foreign bid, plus 10% of the price before U.S. tariffs, freight, etc. are added. The effect of the 10% formula will be to give higher tariff products a better break...