Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campus community chest sent him $850; an Austin dowager, $750; a businessman, $800 more. He used these funds for freight-to Japan, Brazil, India, Germany, Liberia, the Philippines. He sent all kinds of books: dictionaries, biographies, encyclopedias, novels. In four years he shipped out 325,000 volumes...
...first few weeks of operation, CMP had only applied to manufacturers directly engaged in the defense programs and to the so-called defense-supporting industries, e.g., freight-car building. Makers of such civilian goods as refrigerators and autos had been left to scramble for themselves. By putting the civilian producers under CMP, Fleischmann hoped to assure them a fair share...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last week gave U.S. railroads a freight-rate increase-for most of them, the ninth such raise since the end of World War II. Eastern roads got permission to raise their rates 9%; lines in other regions got 6%. Railroad men estimate that the boost will bring in $564 million more a year in revenue. The railroads had asked for a 15% increase, were opposed by the Office of Price Stabilization, which argued that any increase would be passed on to consumers. But ICC decided the railroads needed the money "to meet the needs of national defense...
Mississippi's waspish John Rankin waggled his white mane with satisfaction. Said he to the House of Representatives last week: "This regulation is ... the first thing that has brought justice in freight rates to the people of the South and West in the last 50 years." Editorialized the Atlanta Journal: "It has been a long and valiant fight [which] has resulted in a triumph for justice and fair play...
Both were talking about the Interstate Commerce Commission's latest directive to U.S. railroads, ordering them, to file uniform freight rates on rail shipments of manufactured goods to all parts of the U.S. east of the Rockies by Jan. 1. Southerners have long complained that freight rates have been stacked against the South; e.g., it is 20% cheaper to ship some goods from Chicago to New York (890 miles) than from Atlanta to New York (868 miles). By removing these differentials, ICC's order-following a 1947 Supreme Court decision holding such rates discriminatory-will save Southern businessmen...