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Western railroads wanted a general freight rate increase of 5 percent; the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated for more than a year and last week said, "No." Its report asserted that, "so far as the major portion of the western district is concerned, no financial emergency exists...
...called them "seadromes"- enormous floating islands of steel and concrete, to cover 100 or more acres and be anchored at intervals across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer...
...discreet little third-rail electric railroad, linking St. George, Hamilton and Somerset Ferry. The Bermuda Railway Co. Ltd. was careful to add that its trains would have trailers, for baggage and bicycles." Die-hard Bermudans nevertheless shook their heads. "Alas," said they, "and then it will be freight cars, milk trains, grade crossings, Progress...
...conspiracies; 2) a highly mobile squad of 88 to nose out and prevent diversion of industrial alcohol for synthetic whiskies and gins; 3) 88 other sleuths to work with the American Railway Association in matching wits with shippers of beer who now, it seems, can baffle the shrewdest freight-masters by disguising their bubblesome liquid as lumber, cement, merchandise...
...Brookhart has been stumping Iowa telling it just that, saying that Wall Street put him out of his seat, saying that Wall Street defeated the Haugen farm relief bill, saying that Wall Street put over the Esch-Cummins railway bill and the farmers are paying (through freight rates) the dividends on watered stock, saying that the farmers are enriching Wall Street because they have to buy under the protective tariff, saying Wall Street and the Administration are hand in glove, and mentioning incidentally that he voted against World Court adherence...