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Suggestions that the inspiration for this move might have originated with New York Central were vastly annoying to U. S. Freight's President Frederic N. Melius, who rumbled: "Universal Carloading ... is simply a shipper of merchandise freight. It changes its routings on freight from one road to another to suit its own conditions and conveniences. No railroad has anything to do with determining such changes...
Texas & Monopoly: ". . . Your farmers were among the first to rebel against exploitation by the railroads. In a period of monopoly, combinations, overcapitalization, high rates, poor service and discrimination against the small shipper, you established a landmark in the regulation of public utilities for the good of their users...
Many a suit at law has hinged on the interpretation of an "and/or." Usually the decision has gone against the drafter who slipped that literary whatnot into his contract. An early instance is a case decided in a British court on Feb. 8, 1855. A shipper named Gumming had accepted from a ship owner named Cuthbert a contract to provide one complete cargo of "sugar, molasses and/or other lawful products...
...After Shipper Gumming had loaded on every puncheon of sugar and molasses the ship would hold, some odd space remained. He left it empty. Owner Cuthbert claimed he should have filled it with "other lawful products," brought suit for ?139, 8s., 3 d. damages. The trial judge ruled that the ambiguous "and/or" in Owner Cuthbert's contract had rightfully entitled Shipper Cumming to do as he pleased about odd space...
...Stubbs, mentally planning changes for the next game, a week from last night, laconically summed up the Harvard point of view on the outcome. Said he: "Generally satisfactory." The summary: HARVARD M.I.T. Hovenanian, Hallowell, G. Roberts, Carr, l.w. r.w., Muther, Anderson Moseley, Ford, Dewey, Cutter, c. c., Eddy, Shipper S. Callaway, Ecker, Mechem, Quinby, r.w. l.w., Acker, Stiles Claflin, Duffey, Allen, l.d. r.d., Goodwin, Cook J. Roberts, Brown, Hicks, r.d. l.d., Porter, Minot Waldinger, Kidder, g. g., Kenny Score--Harvard 12, M.I.T...