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This week railroad men and oil men sat down to make a deal on freight rates. The roads offered roughly a 50% cut in their present tariffs, which are currently about six times the tanker rates. The oil companies, hoping for a bigger rate cut, dickered with each other on ways to prorate among themselves the higher cost of rail shipment. Once the price deal is made the carriers will get their chance to prove what they can do - and the whole East will cheer for it nervously...
Hitler Missed the Tanker...
Into narrow twisting Vladivostok one day last week slid the bulk of the U.S. oil tanker, L. P. St. Clair. To battling Russia she brought barrels of high octane gasoline. Next day the Associated was berthed beside her with 95,000 barrels more. Early this week another arrived. And strung like a chain across the Pacific still more tankers wallowed along from the U.S. to Russia, right between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. If not actively fighting Fascism, the U.S. was helping to fuel the fight against...
Caught in a cross fire from suspicious Senators, Davies admitted that even the 27,800,000 deficit might not materialize. Tank cars, which he understood to number 18,000, might fill the tanker gap. But the tank cars were elusive. He did not know where they were, whether they were idle, how they could be put to work. Neither Transportation Defense Commissioner Ralph Budd nor American Association of Railroads President John Pelley could tell him. The Senators decided to get hold of Messrs. Budd and Pelley, track the tank cars to their lair...
...From tankers Land jumped to pipelines, revealed that the Maritime Commission is dead against them. Reason: they take too much steel, take too long to build. As a substitute he suggested reinforced concrete barges. One 14,000-ton tanker pulling such a barge could-after allowing for decreased speed-increase its annual pay load 27%; by pulling two barges...