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...bent over the world's palm, foretold (for the Atlanta Constitution) that the war would be over in two months. "I can't tell my reasons. I have them, of course. That's all I care to say on the subject." The World War I Peace-Shipper continued: "My message to young people, those in uniform and those out of uniform, is simply this: find out the cause of war. That will stop wars quicker than anything I know. I could tell them, but it doesn't seem to work that way, somehow. They must find...
...they cut down 9,000 acres of trees they could no longer afford to spray, and went so terribly in the red that the average debt was $750 per acre. But by 1941 prices went up; the demand for Wenatchee's luxury apples was brisk. That fall, when Shipper Reuben Benz wangled a freight reduction, the growers were riding so high that they gave him 3,100 silver dollars, trundled into a banquet room in a wheelbarrow...
Many a U.S. shipper these days is like a captain nervously watching his barometer drop to hurricane level. Shippers know that at war's end the U.S. may have quadrupled its prewar fleet to a thumping 50,000,000 deadweight tons, most of it Government-owned, enough to founder private shippers if unwisely used. What will happen to this vast tonnage...
Fuller Cars. Average load is perhaps five tons more than last year, ten tons more than 20 years ago. Shippers everywhere were cooperating in the drive for fuller cars. A cement shipper saved 600 cars in one month; 36 instead of 18 hogsheads of tobacco per car cut a tobacco shipper's requirements by 465 cars. By doubling the number of barrels of flour per car, a northwestern miller used 100 fewer cars. Less-than-carload-lot shipments under six tons have been entirely banned by ODT, cutting l.c.l. carloadings last month 251,950 below last years...
...very short time Harry Bridges was the most hated man in California. Many a shipper thought the millennium and the deportation of Alien Harry Bridges were synonymous. For four years they worked hard to send him away...