Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South & West have been fighting ever since to get the rates down. They claimed that their high rates were part of a dark conspiracy contrived by eastern capital. They cited examples to show how they had been handicapped (a manufacturer in New York could ship the 852 miles into Louisville for less than an Atlanta manufacturer, only 449 miles away). Even Canadian shippers could reach the rich eastern markets, over equal distances, at a cheaper rate...
...pending were suits brought by Georgia's ex-Governor Ellis Arnall and the Department of Justice, which would try to narrow the gap between North & South still more. The ICC was planning for the day when every type of freight would move at a standard mile-for-mile rate everywhere in the U.S. When that day came, the effects on the economy of the U.S. would be incalculable...
...trick. The tax is now in effect only on domestic travel. He met the black market in Paris the first time he handed the clerk in his hotel U.S. dollars to exchange. The clerk, who was running his own black exchange, gave him 230 francs to the dollar (official rate...
...greater interest in extracurricular activities. Whether this is the trend in the right direction of getting the veterans out of their book-lined fox holes remains to be seen, but it indicates that the balanced individual Mr. Bender seeks may eventually emerge on the undergraduate scene. At any rate, the problems of the next few years have been clearly stated and Mr. Bender gives every indication of ability to cope with them successfully...
These programs will be rebroadcast over a national ABC hookup on consecutive Saturday afternoons, beginning sometime this summer. They have been simply written and read at an especially slow rate for the benefit of the foreign audience...