Word: rated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canada had an 8 cent freight rate advantage over the U. S. to the world market. The U. S. surplus could be moved only at a loss. It was not moving, yet estimates showed that some 200 billion bushels must move before the next harvest...
Last week the Kansas City Southern R. R. cut its wheat rate 7 cents per 100 Ib. from midwest points to gulf ports. Wheat exporters were ready to leap with joy. Then eastern railroad executives (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Reading, Lehigh Valley) met in Washington, recognized "an emergency of national proportions," volunteered to cut their freight rates from the Mississippi Valley to North Atlantic seaports on wheat for export. The reductions per bushel (60 Ib.) would be: 2 cents from Buffalo, 4 cents from Chicago, 5 cents from St. Louis...
...before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below the new U. S. rates...
...countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
Taxi companies estimated that the gas tax has increased operating expenses per cab by 40?a day. Additional insurance rates have produced a 50? a day increase. A taxi's daily intake is about $23, its net about $4. According to A. S. Freed, head of Paramount Cab Mfg. Co., the threatened 30? a mile rate (well within the legal limit of 40? would barely compensate for added costs of doing business...