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...Lake Cargo Coal Case"-between Southern coal and railroad men, Northern coal and railroad men, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, over freight rates...
...Names. Express, passenger and freight trains have names; Pullman cars have names; and B. &O. engines.* The Pennsylvania Railroad, building cars: at its Altoona, Pa., shops, decided to name 45 new theatrical scenery cars after famed stage characters (real and literary), 25 new horse express cars after famed racetracks...
...Cent Loaves. Atlantic & Pacific chain stores in and around New York began to sell 1-lb. loaves of bread for 5?. They also sold 2-lb. loaves for 8?. Wherever freight rates on flour from Minneapolis are as cheap as to Manhattan, there A. & P. will sell loaves as cheaply. Other stores will doubtless follow...
...General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half a dozen other major cities. But he did not bother to show whence the money would come...
...across the tracks near a curve and then went into the bushes to wait. A few minutes before the express arrived, a freight train came puffing up to the obstruction and its engineer got out of his cab and pushed the tie down into the bushes. Matt Fisher was about to put it back where he wanted it when some trainmen who had heard his dog barking, found him sitting in the shrubbery. They asked him what he was doing and Matt Fisher, sucking on a cigaret, told them...