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...cruise over the city. When the time finally came for the ceremonies, the ZR3 misbehaved disgracefully. Six hours flight had made a dent in the fuel supply carried on board, and the huge dirigible was too light and buoyant. Several hundred sailors hanging on heavy tow lines could not haul her down, and when one of the tow lines snapped, to the discomfiture of the straining gobs, she sailed off again. Admiral Moffett was obliged to give radio orders for release of some of the precious helium, before the ship could be maneuvered into position against the platform where...
Wages of Virtue is another of those tawdry titles which haul the population into the picture houses. Wages of Virtue is one of those few films which return the hauling charge. Gloria Swanson is chiefly responsible...
...Senate passed its first important piece of railroad legislation-the Gooding long and short haul bill. The bill has to do with a phase of railroad rate-making usually referred to by the words "Charge whatever the traffic will bear." This does not necessarily mean, as it is sometimes interpreted, to raise rates as high as possible. The object of the Gooding bill is to prevent the railroads from lowering certain rates. The problem came up in 1887 and was referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist...
...satisfy these objectors, the Gooding bill was passed. It forbids the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant lower long haul rates than short haul rates except under specific conditions: 1) where the freight transported is for export or from import and 2) where two railroads compete in the same territory, but one has a circuitous route to a given destination (that is, the road with the circuitous route is allowed to make its rate as low as that of the line with the straight route; 3) for block express...
...bill forbidding lower long haul rates except under these conditions was passed by the Senate, 54 to 23. It is extremely dubious whether it will come before the House at this session. The question is important, because on long and short haul rates depend the geographical distribution of many industries, and the industrial growth of communities and of entire sections of the country...