Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary British cig-arets up in price from 20? per pack to 25?; matches from 11½? to 2? per box; beer from 9? to 10? per pint; whiskey from $2.50 to $2.80 a bottle. In Britain telephone and telegraph are State monopolies and the Chancellor raised their inland rates 15%, left overseas business rates unchanged to favor British trade. Finally Sir John almost doubled the ordinary British postal rates. Armchair London economists quickly figured that all these measures will cost the "average Briton" an extra shilling and sevenpence weekly...
Ever since their monopoly vanished and their earnings began to fall, U. S. railroad men have squawked about Government subsidies to their competitors, especially inland waterways and trucks...
...West the Germans did not even originally have easy going. Norse resistance around Bergen was stiff. This week the Allies began to land in force. When British troops were reported advancing as far south and as far inland as Hamar to turn back the German juggernaut, the campaign, largely out of Norwegian hands, entered its next phase...
...quarrel had railroad men with the findings on inland waterways. To everyone but a few big shippers, a few Army men, they have long been an economic scandal...
...cost in public funds (1935) of the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois River systems (said the Eastman report), barge routes saved shippers less than $7,000,000. Last week the Senate-House conference committee agreed to report out the Wheeler-Lea bill, which would put inland water transportation under ICC control...