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...Government of taking over for its War time needs property of estimated value of $19,000,000,000, a 'business with about 2,000,000 stock and bond holders and the same number of employes, with equipment consisting of 366,197 miles of track, 2,408,518 freight cars, 66,070 locomotives, 55,939 passenger cars, 532 separate railways (exclusive of some 855 short line railways, not taken over) and 25 coastwise and inland steamship lines, with terminals, floating equipment, elevators and other essentials...
After the splendid freight movement of the past two years, many have wondered whether it would continue through 1925. Thus far, the prospect is encouraging. For the week ending Jan. 10, a new high record for loadings of freight at this time of the year was established, amounting to 932,807 cars...
Transportation Costs. Because of flat increases in freight rates during the War, agricultural products, and especially live stock, bear a disproportionate share of transportation costs. The whole freight-rate structure needs thorough revision. The Conference will later make definite recommendations regarding the agricultural aspects of such a revision...
...traffic, 1924 should rank only after the extraordinary rail way year of 1923. Carloadings this year are expected to reach 49,000,000 cars-about 1,000,000 less than 1923, but 4,000,000 over the heavy year of 1920. Loadings of merchandise, miscellaneous and less-than-carload freight l have tended to increase during the past year, while a decline has been witnessed in coal, ore, coke...
...remaining. Her skipper, Captain Hartley, leaning into the wind upon the bridge, had had his last night's sleep within his bunk for he did not know how long. Into a towering gale, momentarily increasing, swept the vessel. Great seas pounded her. Within her thin steel walls reposed a freight of notables. David Warfield, the actor, returning from sojourn abroad; Julius Fleischmann, the yeast millionaire, turned racehorse breeder in his postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White Sox and the Giants, homing from winter play abroad; Charalambous Simopoulos, the new Greek Ambassador to the U. S., and his Secretary...