Million Cars. For railroad men the week of March 12 became significant as they learned last week that for the first time this year they had moved more than 1,000,000 cars of freight—1,005,715. Last year the first 1,000,000-car week did not occur until May, and in 1925 not until July. During the first eleven weeks of this year 10,349,326 cars were moved.
Italian Financing Credit Consortium for Public Works, the institution created by order of the Italian Government to finance Italian shipbuilding, tried to borrow $12,000,000 in Manhattan last week, and simultaneously $8,000,000 in...
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