Word: shippers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad situation may be due partly to the confusion caused by the volume of discussion in recent years about railroad legislation. Government operation, rates, wages, consolidations and many other details, which bewilder the average person whose contact with the railroads is as a passenger or an occasional shipper, and give the impression that the situation is hopelessly complicated...
...their financial situation is such that there seems to be little hope for any immediate economical reconstruction. Then, too, there is the question of the communistic confiscation of property--one of the most difficult problems that the Genoa conference is now facing. It is beyond reason to expect American shippers to reestablish trade relations with Russia with the Bolshevist blockade still in operation. Russia has nothing to offer, her credit is no good, and the risk incurred by the shipper is too great...
...government inspector by cable, if necessary to the next port, and if the inspector found any unused space on the ship, the ship owners were fined an amount equal to twice the freight rate for the cargo refused, the money go received being payable to the aggrieved shipper...