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The article discusses the possibility that prices for paper and paper products in the U.S. may increase as of January 1949. It states that since the industry has more inventory than in 1948, they expect prices to remain stable, despite demands for more service and better quality. It reports, however, that pulp prices will determine price, and while these are expected to remain stable, producers in the U.S. and Canada are demanding higher prices for freight allowances, from 7.50 dollars to 12.50 dollars per ton. Should they get it, paper prices will rise.

The article reports that representatives of growers, shippers, distributors and government bodies have gathered to adopt a program to simplify containers used to ship market fresh fruits and vegetables in the U.S. It states that the Freight Container Bureau of the Association of American Railways has a policy that a container would load economically and carry the contents safely to its destination. However, package styles and sizes have multiplied as a consequence of achieving distinct packages.

The article offers information on W.R. Grace & Co. It states that the company has launched its two new projects, including, a ship named Santa Paula, to transport passengers and freights on the route covering U.S., Caribean, and South America, and a plant in Baton Rouge, Los Angeles. Several other companies being run under W.R. Grace & Co. include, a ship line, a chemical company, and a bank.

The article reports on the problems concerning the increase in freight loads on highways in the U.S. It highlights the difficulty in the administration of public road maintenance especially during war. According to Thomas MacDonald, commissioner of the Public Roads Administration, 1944 is a critical year for American highways when more breakdowns are anticipated.

The article reports on the 22,000,000 pounds war freight recorded by the Office of War Information in the first half of 1944, which is worth about 79 million U.S. dollars excluding outbound traffic. The Himalayas from China to India route and the Karachi, India to the U.S. via Africa route and the South America route are some of the most popular destinations of the war freight. The main lone that runs to Trinidad and Puerto Rico from New York via Bermuda also makes it as one of the popular destinations as it close to Miami, Florida.

This section offers news briefs in the aviation industry as of March 15, 1946. The use of the Lockheed Constellation aircraft by the airline companies Transcontinental and Western Air, and Pan Amerian World Airways results to savings in flight time. The increase in the demand for cargo delivery may lead to dedicated freight services to meet consumer needs. The Air Transport Association of America is evaluating new equipment including carts, conveyors, and ramps amid the emergence of air cargo.

The article refers to the U.S. Supreme Court's basing-point decision in the Federal Trade Commission's Cement Institute case and the issue of freight absorption in the New England manufacturing area. Managers are concerned that the ruling will affect the cost of material, established selling practices, prices for finished products, and the ability to remain competitive. Topics include steel products, paper box industry, cement, rayon textiles, chemical industry, zone system of pricing, the f.o.b. mill pricing policy, and how a trend toward f.o.b. prices in New England will affect trade with Canada.

The article reports that newspapers and magazines took advantage of airline express and freight services as well as the easing in printing facilities to improve distribution around the U.S. Time, Inc., which prints in Los Angeles, California purchased a site for an additional printing plant in California in 1945 while in 1944 "Newsweek" used an air-rail express combination to speed up distribution. "The Wall Street Journal" began using air express shipment from San Francisco to the Midwest before the war and has started shipping to Detroit and Chicago.

The article focuses on the confidence being felt by the railroad industry in the U.S. as a result of its good financial performance in 1966 as well as the challenges facing the industry in 1967. Topics discussed include the 745-million revenue ton-miles posted by the industry in its intercity freight traffic, Erie Lackawanna Railroad chairman William A. White's support for a proposed general rate increase, and the progress in patchwork railroads due to industrial shipments to Vietnam.

Explains that there are three theoretically possible ways in which railroads could comply with railroad workers' demand for a revision of the existing wage schedule in the United States. Reconstruct the roads with shorter divisions so as to shorten the time of the freight runs; Reduce the length of trains so that they could run at higher speed to escape the penalty of overtime; Pay the increased wages under present working conditions; Workers propose that the basis of their pay shall be eight hours or less of time or 100 miles or less of distance.

The article presents news briefs related to the railway industry in the United States as of January 1, 1933. Class 1 railway companies released statements showing profits had increased in November 1932 compared to the same month in 1931. Freight loadings for Class 1 trains were below 520,000 cars per week. Shipment increases were predicted for commodities including flour, vegetables, and paper.

The article offers news briefs related to the stock market of the U.S. In June 1960, the Dow-Jones industrial average of the railroad industry recorded its highest point. In February 1960, the miscellaneous carloadings have been improved. The bond market of the U.S. performed good during March 1961, with increased prices.

The article reports that freight car loadings in the U.S. reached their normal seasonal high in the week of October 24, 1936.

The article reports on the increase of the shipment of iron ore in 1942 in Great Lakes, North America by 92,076,781 gross tons, despite of the front war of raw materials. It reveals that the tonnage exceeds both early and late season goals set by the U.S. War Production Board and beats last season's record by 11,960,521 tons. It also notes that 16 new lake vessels under construction for the Maritime Commission will be put in service to add up 6,400,000 tons to the fleet's season capacity.

The article presents updates on Canada's economy, business and trade as of July 30, 1938. There was a slight advance in freight movement and bank clearings are about on a 1937 level. The high level of wheat harvest has resulted in a pressure to fix the price for wheat. The British company St. Lawrence Alloys and Metals Limited has entered the ferro silicon production sector in Quebec.

The article looks at how freight forwarder Emery Air Freight Corp. lives with airline cutbacks. To keep its service levels high, Emery Air Freight has a trucking subsidiary, a surface freight forwarder rights and it also uses ground transportation. The company also utilizes third level carriers to make overnight deliveries and meet its commitments. Other measures implemented by Emery Air Freight include the launch of new premium-priced services and introduction of multiple pickup and delivery rates as an incentive to shippers to preconsolidate shipments.

Photographs of a refurbished freight car before and after the rebuilding by Union Metal Products Co. are presented.

The article discusses new rules by the U.S. War Production Board (WPB) on the use of tank cars to address bottlenecks as of February 1943. It states that the use of freight transport is expected to rise by about 10%, so the WPB issued a list on what can be transported first. This will affect passenger travel, eventually. Materials like caustic soda and molasses must move through certain zones starting March 1, while acetone, butyl acetate and corn syrup must be reported in advance. The WPB hopes industries will do this voluntarily before mandating it.

A list of the U.S. government's checklist of significant orders on war materials and prices is presented in 1942, including material and equipment for dehydrating food products such as electric motors, exemptions from the Office of Defense Transportation Order 16 restricting export freight movement into port areas including bulk grain, and the provision of operating margins by Amendment 11 to Revised Schedule 120 to smithing coal distributors.

The article reports on the notification issued by London's Shipping Ministry to Liverpool merchants that an adequate freight space for the shipment of African and U.S. cotton has been allocated in England.

A graph is presented that compares the tons of freight which have been loaded by trucks and freight cars in the U.S. from 1937 to 1939.

Focuses on political developments in the world. Statement that men at the front, especially in the Pacific, complain that the people back home have not the slightest conception of what goes on out there, and the complaint is at the basis of the widening non-comprehension between civilian and returning soldier which has been remarked by several observers; Discussion of the damage done to shipping in the Inland Sea with details of the carrier strikes there; Evidence from Germany on the question of how far the Japanese capacity to resist can be destroyed by air attack from Okinawa or any other place; Discussion of the American delegation at San Francisco that has now explained its unfortunate stand against conceding that independence is a desirable ideal, and putting that fact into the charter of the new security organization; Statement that the Americans say they are in favor of steps toward self-government, which might end in independence if the people involved should want it, or might not; Description of the questions of trusteeship and regional security that have been successfully solved at San Francisco and that the Conference is going on with its task to set up an effective international security organization; Information on the Veterans' Administration in regard to the handling of men in the veterans' hospitals; Information on the Lend-Lease shipments of the U.S. that were sent to the Soviet Union; Focus on the sweeping decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission to equalize class freight rates as between the East on the one hand and the South and the West on the other; Statement that China had decided to revalue the gold value of her currency and used the time intervening between the decision and the announcement to make huge profits; Discussion of the promise of British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden regarding a unity government that would be formed in Greece with a program of reconciliation and representation of a liberation movement.

We are at the end of a significant era of technological change in transportation, warehousing, inventory control, and order processing. Now a new era is evolving--one that will be marked by institutional rather than technological change. Greater gains are now possible through such change, in part resulting from the realization of promises made but unfulfilled by technology.This article discusses the nature of institutional change and suggests methods of achieving interorganizational solutions which will be central to continued improvement of productivity in logistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on the operations of the Inland Waterways Corporation, the government agency which manages the fleet of barges and towboats which sail under the name of the Mississippi Warrior Service. According to the article, shippers are extensively using the barge line which allowed them to save more than two million dollars in freight rates in 1928.

This section offers news briefs concerning business in the U.S. as of August 1927. Corporate profits for the first half of the year are characterized as irregular, but in most cases, are considered better than the year before. Interest rates have declined during the first half of the year, with increased import of Canadian gold cited as one of the reasons. For June 1927, revenue freight loadings are deemed irregular and are slightly below than record figures posted in the week of May 14, 1927.

The article presents an evaluation of various economic areas including bank debits, car loadings and domestic commodity prices. Bank clearings had advanced compared to seasonal schedule and were running about 10 per cent more than the same period in the past year. Car loadings of revenue freight were growing, showing an increase of about 20,000 cars weekly. Commodity prices had consistently declined with the weekly index registering at its lowest level in 3 years.

The article focuses on various socio-political issues. The sudden death of Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller on Monday comes as a fresh reminder to thoughtful people of the critical days which the U.S. Supreme Court is facing. One-third of its membership has gone to the Great Assize since William Howard Taft became president. Close on the heels of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission's decisions reducing rates to points in the Far West, comes the announcement by the same body that it will stand by the official classification of freights announced some time ago, affecting all that part of the country north of Potomac and Ohio, and east of Mississippi. In many countries of Europe, the old cry about clericalism is reëchoed.

The article discusses the costs in operating trucks for freight handling, as well as whether or not the trucks are efficient for the task and what tasks are not economical for the use of trucks. Using charts and tables, the author shows how the manufacture and registration of trucks has increased in the years prior to the publication of the article. The operating costs are separated into the categories of costs associated with owning the trucks, such as insurance, and the costs associated with using the trucks, such as gasoline. He then compares the use of trucks for freight transporting to that of the railroads and horses.

The article discusses the growth of independent all-cargo air carriers or passenger lines and the decline in the business of all-cargo carriers in the U.S. in 1953. A plan proposed by the U.S. Air Force involves its funding of the development of a plane designed specifically for carrying cargo, and the leasing of the planes to civilian carriers. Under the deal's terms, carriers would be required to fly the planes over a network of domestic and overseas routes dictated by military strategy.

The article reports on the trends in the transportation industry in the U.S. in March 1954. It says that the developments in the country's transportation system are important to businessmen because of their major impact on the costs and profits of the average company. According to the author, the volume of business of the transportation sector is expanding fast although it is not considered a growth industry. The year-by-year increase of freight, the passenger-miles pattern and the railroad industry's share of total ton-mileage are also discussed.

The article focuses on the U.S. truck-railroad industry. It states that Chicago & North Western Railway Co. (CNW) introduced its trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC) service on August 13, 1953 in which truck trailers are loaded on a train. It says that Rail-Trailer Co.'s amortization on 21 million dollar budget for 1,500 flat cars was approved by the government. It notes that Rail-Trailer president Eugene F. Ryan is also hoping for a deal that will permit car rentals and operation of railroad terminals.

The article focuses on the use of timetable in Sentinel Service of Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad Co. (RR) to improve its carload fast freight service under the management of president Howard E. Simpson. It says that previous surveys conducted in shippers showed the importance of dependability to enhance freight service. According to B&O, Sentinel Service is a comprehensive controlled operation involving shipment of facilities from manufacturers to customers which works on a sensible schedule.