Word: hundredweight
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...than coal shipped to cities in this country, but immediately adjoining the Canadian border.) Mr. Rea left the conference without public comment. But other railroad officials were less reticent. They declared that freight rates on wheat for export are already less than on wheat for domestic use. Rates per hundredweight on shipments from Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard are 30? for domestic consumption and 22½? for export; from St. Louis, 34? for domestic consumption, 26½? for export. It was asserted that the railroads would only lose money by a further increase, and that the farmers actually would...
...about 85% of Cuban sugar companies are owned by Americans. The Tarafa Bill would require that private ports be used only when reached over the consolidated railways or by shipment over the sugar companies' roads with a graduated tax of from five to twenty cents per hundredweight on the sugar shipped-a tax that the sugar companies say is prohibitive. The sugar companies and certain copper interests in like position are protesting at Washington that the Tarafa Bill is conflscatory and are asking intervention. It happens that the Cuban public railroads are also owned in large part by Americans...