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...encouraging indication that business is not, on the whole, as bad as it is sometimes painted, was furnished by figures of freight car loadings for the week ending Aug. 2. The previous "peak" of freight traffic in this country for 1924, measured by carloading statistics, had been during the week ending Mar. 1, when 945,049 cars were loaded. From that point, loadings declined until for the week ending July 5 they were only 759,942. From that point a great recovery has been seen. The next week the loading figure leaped upward to 910,415, and, after advancing steadily...
...system, according to experts, will be sound from a traffic as well as from a financial standpoint. Pere Marquette will serve to collect local traffic, and to distribute coal from the C. & O. The original Nickel Plate and Erie systems between them provide an excellent fast freight line into New York from the West. The Hocking Valley serves to connect the mileage of the C. & O., Erie and Nickel Plate. The consolidated system will touch New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Peoria, Newport News, Toledo, Detroit, Buffalo. The old Erie gives it one seaboard outlet on the Atlantic...
...weakness much commented on in stock market circles lies in the fact that the new Nickel Plate system will not touch Pittsburgh. This means a heavy loss of valuable freight, and for some times rumors have been afloat that the Van Sweringens would also acquire the Pittsburgh & West Virginia road to strengthen their system. Some Cleveland parties, unknown, have purchased 40,000 shares of this road from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., with an option on 34,000 shares more; this is about a quarter of the total 300,000 shares of the road. When the Van Sweringens are asked...
...sale or selling in interstate commerce plates, shapes, bars, or their fabrications (wire, etc.) 1) at Pittsburgh Plus prices; 2) at prices based on any point other than that where the products are manufactured or shipped; 3) at discriminatory prices designed to lessen competition. The Commission referred to the freight charge involved by "Pittsburgh Plus" as "imaginary," indi- cated the hardships upon consumers as resultant from the fact that the Corporation produces nearly 50% of the American rolled steel...
...Newark, N. J., citizens complained that 100 vagrant goats had taken possession of the freight-yard district, butted the residents, overturned swill buckets, eaten clotheslines, rosebushes, awnings. Police, five dog-catchers, two Health Department Inspectors, Humane Society Agents, a squad of detectives geared out with lassos and dog-nets, harried the herd of whiskered miscreants, caught nine...