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THE MARINE REVIEW Abnormal Business Conditions— Chapter F. What We Are Doing To Meet Them Doubling Our Cylinder _ Service To Solve Freight Congestion Problems Abnormal business conditions have made freight congestion one of this country’s biggest business handicaps. : : And—authorities agree that there is no immediate possibility of relief through railway service expansion. It is, therefore, clearly up to every manufacturer to devise his own ways and means of solving his own particular shipping troubles in these strenuous times. With shipments of Oxygen cylinders, both full and empty, delayed days and even weeks, we decided that the only way to meet the situation in our own ease, would be through tremendous expansion of our cylinder service. 7 To this end we have, for some time past, been putting new cylinders in commission at the rate of one aminute during every eight hour day. This service expansionmeans—that wehave purchased the maximum quantity of cylinders we oe could obtain from the American manufacturers—that we have purchased them in the face of a heavy advance in their cost, and with a full realization of the fact that this abnormal increase in the ratio of cylinder service to Oxygen sold, would seriously cut the gross earnings of every cylinder very materially. It is obvious that no one-plant concern could ever meet freight congestion or similar obstacles through any such super effort and sacrifice. In Chapter *‘G’’ of this series, we will comment on the weakness of private plants as exposed by Linde Service under present day conditions. - The Linde Air Products Company 42nd Street Bldg., New York City, N. Y. “Largest Producers of Oxygen in the World’’ Please mention THE Marine Review when writing to Advertisers Ww NSN LITT July, 1918