Minutes, 1917 [photoprints].

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Minutes, 1917 [photoprints].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122292337

The minutes document the railroad industry's attempts to cope with the unexpected increase in traffic and shortages of equipment, as well as with government regulation, during the first year of the war. The committee and its sub-committees embraced most of the leading railroad exectuives in the U.S.

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