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...railroads insist that no cars can be loaded unless they can be promptly unloaded. By fall, said one railroader, "We are going to have ten places to put boxcars for every boxcar we have got." Thus no cars can be used for storage purposes. Any shipper who tries it will be promptly embargoed...
These new rates mean increased costs to almost every big U.S. manufacturer, to consumers and to the Government, now the nation's largest single shipper. Yet at the ICC hearings the only real opposition to it came from farmer-befriending Secretary Wickard. Not even Leon Henderson protested. For he knew the boost, however inflationary, was probably inevitable...
...character leapt Alvin Ward Vogtle, Birmingham coal shipper who is also president of the National Association of Shippers Advisory Boards, to defend the railroads' action. Said he: "The increase should be not only liberal but generous...our very lives and freedom depend on the railroads....The railroads in the past two emergency years have done a better job than any other industry....There must be adequate revenue for property and service maintenance to provide for the highest degree of efficiency." He opposed a compromise suggestion-selective increases aimed at consumer and nonwar traffic-on the grounds that it would...
Only President Roosevelt and Navy Secretary Knox knew when the "standby" order would be lifted. But many a war-wise shipper guessed it would be soon. Reason: the order detained 10-15 vessels bound for Vladivostok with oil and machinery vitally needed by the Russians. It also held back tons of raw materials needed for U.S. war forges. Other shippers, however, figured the order would stand until all merchantmen could be escorted (by the Navy) to Manila, there equipped with guns. That would take longer-but be safer...
...benefit of RFC loans; $516,000,000 was the value of all land grants. But current benefits of land grants were considered "small and probably negligible." Recommended for favorable action was an old railroad plea-that the Federal Government, which has always been a cut-rate shipper in consideration of these ancient grants, henceforward pay full rates...