Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broker Jay Friedman. The anchor man on the daisy chain was Seymour Waldman, though he managed to get hold of only about half the steel. He sold it to the Daisy Manufacturing Co. of Plymouth, Mich, (air rifles, BB shot, toys) for $12.01. Waldman's price included a freight charge from La Crosse, Wis. (on which there is a 3% federal tax), even though during all six transactions the steel had never moved from Steubenville. The 39,490 Ibs. that Waldman didn't get went in rapid succession to two other brokers before it landed in the hands...
...another big sideline, canning 300,000 to 400,000 cases a year of beef stew, corned-beef hash, chili and chili con carne for Hormel. From the original cannery, Flotill has grown to three plants-two at Stockton, a third at Modesto-covering 67 acres, using more than 25 freight cars of tin cans daily, packaging 75,000 cases of 77 different seasonal items, employing 4,000 workers at peak season...
...contracts, Guatemala will insist that the company: 1) pay income taxes equal to those paid by corporations (up to 43%); 2) turn over to the government the country's major ports, which Unifruit built and operates; 3) cut freight rates on the rail network it controls and on the ships of the "Great White Fleet"; and 4) pay higher prices for bananas it buys from independent Guatemalan producers...
...Pinch. Raw-material costs are rising. Last week the nation's railroads asked for a 7% rise in freight rates. And in the area of wages, where the Administration has yielded with the least reluctance, the seventh postwar round is already in the making. The C.I.O. steelworkers were talking about pay increases and benefits up to 15^ and 20^ an hour...
...National Vintage Queen. In Dallas, a Macaroni Queen was crowned with a tiara of dry macaroni, and the Texas Rice Promotion Association named a Rice Queen, whose first proclamation from the throne was: "I just love to eat rice, I really do." Others currently receiving the royal treatment: Miss Freight Forwarder...