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...favor. France cedes Italy two oases and a strip of territory. Italian schools in Tunis will enjoy equal privileges with the French. Italy will receive 600,000 tons of phosphates a year from French African colonies. The railways running from Tunis to Tripoli are to give reciprocal advantages to freight and passengers...
...week ending June 30 showed that two new records for all time had been established. During the week, 1,021,770 cars were loaded-which tops the previous record of 1,018,539 cars established in the week ending October 14, 1920, at the height of the post-war freight movement. The second record is for the successive number of weeks when loadings exceeded 1,000,000 cars; the week ending June 30 is the fourth successive million-car week. During October, 1920, three million-car weeks occurred. Increased loadings were reported in every commodity except coke and ore. Merchandise...
...dollar about eleven cents, altogether, goes as profit, divided between the producer, jobber, it' any, and retailer. ¶In times of shortage, however, jobbers often buy and sell the same coal several times so that a whole series of extra profits is pyramided on the retail price. ¶Freight charges consume from 16 to 30 cents of the consumer's dollar (depending on his distance from the mine) so that a material reduction in the cost of coal could be brought about by lower freight rates. ¶I The average cost of mining a ton of coal increased...
Improved industrial conditions is the chief cause assigned for earnings of Class 1 railroads during April amounting to 6.5% (on an annual basis). This is almost twice last year's earnings. Freight traffic increased 55% during the year, but cuts in freight rates made the increase in revenue only...
Predictions are that the large earnings will continue during 1923. It is not expected, however, that there will be any pronounced cut of freight rates before next year...