Word: hauls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...along the route, the first of some 50 armored special trains will begin moving 192,000,000 oz. of government gold worth $6,000,000,000 from New York, Philadelphia and other vaults to the great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. Ordinary railroad charge for such a haul would be some $200,000. Last week it was revealed that the Treasury would take advantage of government mail contracts, send its gold by registered parcel post. At the standard rate of 10? per oz., the postage bill to a private sender would be $19,200,000. Generous Postmaster General...
...roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks to pick up or deliver freight free. There was no effective opposition to the plan. Last April the major Eastern roads started to follow suit. But on the day the new service was to begin, so loud were truckmen's howls that...
...Keith went to the pestilential coast town of Limon in Costa Rica to build a railroad inland. In ten years he was $1,000,000 in the hole with 70 miles built and 4,000 men dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money. In 1899 he merged his railroads and plantations with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Co. to form United Fruit, then went north...
...International Railways last week proposed to its stockholders an agreement with United Fruit. By its terms the Fruit Co. would "protect" International Railways against the construction of a new port either on the Atlantic or Pacific for 20 years. It would also provide additional facilities for the long banana haul across Guatemala by buying ten new locomotives and 300 banana cars according to the railroad's specifications. It would, furthermore, guarantee the railroad favorable terms on road ballast from mines in its control. Finally, it would pay International Railways $2,165,000 in cash, receiving in return 20-year...
...first few days, but this is a long-haul job. writing a daily column, and pretty soon they began to shove him back toward the goiter-cures and electric belts, as we say in our business...