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...country's 1,800,000 freight cars. One of their chores is to gather vital statistics of car loadings. The most notable industrial achievement of President Pelley's two years has been the so-called "average" plan for settling car hire between railroads and reducing profitless hauling and switching of empty cars. The A.A.R.'s car service division referees this activity, which now saves U. S. roads $12,000,000 a year...
...labs and in section meetings are long and unnecessarily frequent. The twice-weekly check-up brings the course down to prep-school level. Section meetings held once a week consist of a twenty minute quiz and a half-hour discussion. Poorly conducted as a rule, they are dull and profitless...
...decision of the University was prompted by the opportunity offered for student employment and by a desire to relieve the business office of the almost profitless office routine involved in operating...
Most ironic development in Bass's career came with his spectacular, profitless raids on the dinky little Texas trains that ran from Dallas to Houston. They occurred at the height of the Granger agitation for lower freight rates, when railroads were denounced throughout the West, consequently aroused excitement out of all proportion to their importance as robberies. Afterwards Bass apparently could count on enough support among the farmers to feel sure of hiding places when pursuit grew hot, although his attacks on the railroads had not helped the farmers and scarcely hurt the carriers...
...Profitless Oil. Unlike Britain, the U. S. has only a few communities cooperatively self-contained, notably Maynard, Mass., where co-ops can furnish nearly all consumer needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...