Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate, never before has a campaigning British political leader so heartily abused the White House occupant. According to Premier Hepburn the sum of $500,000 was contributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political fortunes by John L. Lewis. Ontario farmers grin, figuring that "Mitch" is only having his fun when he makes such charges, but the Premier continues roaring at Washington from public platforms: "Is it any wonder that [Lewis] can corrupt governments with a slush fund of that size...
Directed by Anatole Litvak with a sort of unflagging belief in third-rate melodrama, Mayerling is helped toward verisimilitude by the accuracy of its baroque Viennese trimmings, and by the excellent representational music of Arthur Honegger. More serious cinemagoers, however, may wish that the story had come a little closer to grips with human fact, if only by cribbing the moral that Playwright Maxwell Anderson set to the tale in his Masque of Kings last winter: that to rule brutalizes. The Lower Depths (Albatros). Maxim Gorki, literary darling of the Russian masses both before and after the revolution, wrote...
...association charges dues of 50? a year to individuals, a smaller, wholesale rate to clubs. The hobbyists' magazine, The Model Railroader (20? a copy, $2 a year), last year sent a questionnaire to no less than 6,000 known aficionados of the hobby in the U. S. Editor and publisher of The Model Railroader and leader of the association is Albert Carpenter Kalmbach, who in actual practice would never oil his model locomotives with the full-sized, long-snouted railroad oil can he posed with at Detroit (see cut). When Albert Kalmbach was five years old he made such...
...Salt Lake City's Hotel Utah before 350 delegates to the 49th annual convention of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners. "The logical solution of the railroad difficulties," he drawled, "seems to be one national railroad system. Such a system should result in a simple rate structure, no differently rated territories, uniform tariff classifications, transportation wastes reduced to a minimum, and many other manifest benefits. . . ." More significant were other remarks by Chairman Miller on the matter of railroad freight rates. Without particularizing, he declared that the I. C. C. is conducting an intensive study of the rate...
Thus brought to the fore was the most ominous U. S. railroad situation since government operation during the War. Railroad men generally believe that it is impossible to rearrange the rate schedule on the basis solely of operation costs because these vary strikingly in different territories. And some railroaders assert that the traffic may not be willing to bear a sizable rate rise. In any case, as a whole the U. S. railroads are desperately in need of more net income, although last year, after deduction of $500,000,000 fixed charges it amounted to $164,0130,000, a gain...