Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definition of the freshman Smoker. Some people still consider it so. The post-war Smoker, however, is supposed to serve the useful purpose of promoting class unity and injecting some group spirit into the chaotic Yard. That's what the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs maintains, at any rate, and this body has presented considerable evidence that the new-model Smoker can indeed become a fine class-conscious force. But the Committee feels that the Smoker cannot be held earlier than February because of certain "organizational difficulties" and, it says, because "the class is not ready to take part...
Like a doting grandfather who has fed the youngsters too much candy, the Interstate Commerce Commission was getting alarmed at its own generosity to U.S. railroads. Since war's end, it had given them six freight-rate boosts. Yet freight revenues were declining; in the first half of January, carloadings were 11.2% below last year. Last week, in its annual report to Congress, ICC guessed why. It thought that railroads might be pricing themselves out of business...
Because of higher rates, the railroads were losing more & more business to trucks, which were hauling 12% more than a year ago, and barges, which were carrying 20% more. "Rate increases," said ICC, "may be carried to the point where they are largely self-defeating." As an example, it cited the fact that while the Railway Express Agency, Inc. got three increases totaling 46% last year, its revenue decreased...
...biographer to get free access to Sir Arthur's huge stock of letters and manuscripts. Since Carr himself is a talented contriver of whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have been dished...
...Freshman relay team put on another of its top-rate performances, seizing third in a race won by Georgetown in 3:24.5, an almost incredible time for a yearling squad. The Eli freshmen finished last. The fleet Yardling foursome combined the talents of Charlie Durakis, Tom McGrath, Ronald Berman, and Eddie Grutzner...