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Show FREIGHT. i Pessimists, who instinctively bite the silver lining of every cloud to see jlf It's counterfeit, suggested that the huge frelghl traffic during March was 'dui? to heavy movement of coal, getting get-ting stocked up ahead of the strike The roads now report that In the 1 i ist week of the coal strike, ended April 8, they loaded 71 1 268 cars of revenui producing frelgfht, against 691,881 cars in the correspondinc week a year ago And tills Rain was made despite a falling off or 115,496 cars of coal, com-pared com-pared with the week before. |