Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operators have fought for lower freight rates, protested that they suffer from unfair freight differentials. Last year they maintained that freight differentials discriminated against them, tried unsuccessfully to have ICC cut Chesapeake & Ohio's rate 50%. Railroad executives answer that mile for mile the Southern mines enjoy the lowest freight tariffs in the world. But the fact remains that the cost averages 35? a ton more to move coal to tidewater and Great Lakes regions from Virginia, eastern Kentucky and northern Tennessee than from western Pennsylvania and Ohio. The rail-and-water rate from the South to New York...
...employees who will fill the vacancies will naturally start with the lowest wage on the "step-up" scale, thus saving the University some small amount for the first year...
Last week twelve years of civil war were at an end in Texas. It began in 1928, when Texas highways were narrow and motorists found big truck and trailer haulers pushing them right off the road. The State adopted the lowest maximum truckload limit in the U.S.: 7,000 lb. Among growers and shippers in the fertile Rio Grande Valley, rebellion has been popping almost ever since...
Anyone could understand that the total of deaths was bound to increase (plans to train 30,000 Army pilots a year were revealed last week). But how about the rate? General Dargue could explain that, too. Lowest rate (one death per 40,000 flying hours) was still among students at the Air Corps schools, where close supervision kept fatalities and injuries down. But even there the proportion of thoroughly experienced instructors was bound to drop, as the number of students increased. The course had been shortened from a year to seven and a half months. Graduated cadets necessarily went...
...winner of the National Hockey League's season schedule, but to the winner of a postseason, round-robin tourney between the league's top six teams. In other words, the regular season's play does nothing but eliminate one team (the seventh). Any team, even the lowest-ranking, stands to win the playoffs. But even the addicts wanted heavy odds against the potent Bruins for this year's Stanley...