Business: Car Loadings

When U. S. railroads load more than 1,000,000 cars of freight in one week, as the American Railway Association reported last week for the fourth time this year, that means that commodities are moving, that business is good. The continuing bituminous (soft) coal strike and the Mississippi river basin flood have prevented more than four 1,000,000-car weeks this year.

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