Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel market is dull just now for purely seasonal reasons. Ingot production in June was at an annual rate of 25,600,000 tons or about 47% of capacity. Buyers are placing only small orders and insisting on immediate shipment. As yet, steel prices have undergone no particular change, and at present apply to a comparatively small volume of business. When demand becomes more pronounced, a cut may be caused, owing to competition of different mills looking for business...
Sandoval had the bad judgment to imply that Messrs. Almy and Gaar had helped themselves to the shipment, and were now "dancing on the ruins." Two things were certain these six years after the war: the inducements had never reached the harpies, and Mrs. Gaar's garnet bracelets and the beginnings of the "elegant and commodious" mansion on the Hudson had come to light shortly after the money had disappeared there from...
...Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist in it. The essence of the problem is that under certain conditions it pays the railroads to give cheaper rates on long haul than on short haul freight. The case in question has to do with shipments to the East from the Pacific Coast. In this case the railroads have to compete with cheap water freight rates for shipment through the Panama Canal. To get traffic on many classes of goods, the railroads must cut their rates for the long haul. In general and in theory, rates...
...first action of the Chief Executive of Cuba was to cable to U.S. President Coolidge asking that an embargo be placed on the shipment of arms to the rebels...
...first appearance of the present outbreak was at a large dairy near Oakland, Cal., from unknown source. A quarantine against shipment of hoofed animals, disinfection of cattlecars, hay, etc., was declared...