Word: transporta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most merchants know that when their goods will not sell, a sure way to move them is to cut prices. Sales of something the railroads sell-passenger transporta-tion-began to fall after the War and they kept right on falling until last year when they were 70% off from 1920. Untrained as merchants, railroadmen believed that the traffic they had lost to the automobile, airplane and bus was lost for good & all; fare-cutting would merely reduce what little passenger revenue they still had. Early this year President Whitefoord Russell Cole of Louisville & Nashville, a big, genial, iron-haired...
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