Download or read book The Marketing and Transportation Situation, Vol. 125 written by U. S. Agricultural Marketing Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Marketing and Transportation Situation, Vol. 125: May 28, 1957 Average hourly earnings of employees in food-marketing enterprises increased in nearly every month of 1956 and averaged more than 5 percent higher in the first quarter of 1957 than a year earlier. Railroads, trucking firms, and other freight carriers raised their rates during the last year (pp. 11 and The Interstate Commerce Commission approved increases in charges for railroad refrigeration ser vices and in railway express rates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.