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After only two weeks' deliberation, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week granted the Pullman Co. an increase in berth rate's (TIME, Sept. 8), from 1% to 48.9%, depending on the type of sleeping service and distance traveled. The boosts will amount to about $13 million a year. The company had claimed it needed them to offset increasing costs and decreasing traffic...
...public hearings had been held, ICC allowed 20 days for anyone to challenge the increases. By week's end no one had. But Railroader Robert R. Young, whose Chesapeake & Ohio is one of the 57 railroads that now own Pullman, informally rapped ICC.* "It's a pity," said he, "that the company is getting an 'increase in fares on the old junk that...
...after ICC granted the Pullman boosts, all U.S. railroads were at its door with a new request for freight increases- needed, they said, to make up for a 15½?-an-hour wage raise to 1,000,000 employees. The railroads, which had asked ICC in July to increase rates an average of 16.7%, now asked that this be raised to 27%. The proposed new rates would cost the nation's shippers...
Bedtime Boost. The Pullman Co., now owned by a group of 57 railroads, asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to boost all sleeping-car rates under $17.70 from 1% to 49%. The increases would amount to about $13 million a year. This, said the company, would be little enough considering the drop in annual revenues of $31 million compared with 1944, and a rise in costs of $26 million a year since 1942, the year of its last general fare boost...
...right: it was going to be some party. The good old Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council had gotten two special trains, all Pullman and air-conditioned, to send its 188 delegates to the Teamsters' convention in San Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...