Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Business: Business Notes, Jan. 17, 1927
Record freight loading in 1926 was reported by the Amerian Railway Association. The number of cars loaded was 53,309,644, an increase of 4.1% over 1925, the best previous year. Loading of revenue freight exceeded 1,000,000 cars in 27 separate weeks' in 1926, the largest number of such weeks ever reported (seven more than 1925).
Record woman's insurance policy ($3,250,000) has been written in Cincinnati for Mrs. Henry C. Yeiser Jr., daughter of the late Julius Fleischmann. It is as trust fund to insure the fortune inherited from her father. Union Central Life...
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