Trade literature, 1934-1961.

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Trade literature, 1934-1961.

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Item: The railroads: a statement as to policies, October 1934. Item: Shall the railroads be broken down by act of Congress? the billion dollar burden threatened by the six-hour day, train limit, "full crew" and like bills now pending, [1934]. Item: Raising railroad costs of operation by act of Congress, December 1934. Item: A railroad labor leader's view of government ownership, January 1936. Item: Rigor mortis for the railroads; effect of the Wheeler-Crosser Bill intended to "freeze" railroad employment, April 1936. Item: A new era for the railroads, [ca. 1936]. Item: All for one; one for all!; more about the railroads' public relations campaign, [ca. 1936]. Item: Do you know?, October 1937. Item: The Association of American Railroads presents; All aboard; we're going places, [ca. 1940]. Item: The railroads and national defense; address of the Honorable Louis Johnson, the assistant secretary of war, at the dedication ceremony commemorating the services of the Railroad War Board of 1917, April 26, 1940. Item: Not worth its salt; the proposed Florida Ship Canal ... a salt water project ... would contaminate the fresh water that makes Florida the winter garden of the East, [1941]. Item: Savings in transportation charges by water on rivers and canals constituting the inland waterways system; amount of savings - who gets the savings? - savings as a basis of economic justification, by Dr. C. S. Duncan; May 1941. Item: Railroad performance and outlook; a discussion in the United States Senate under the leadership of Senator Clyde M. Reed of Kansas, May 11, 1942. Item: Are railroads making too much money?, 1942. Item: Plain talk on transportation; an address by Joseph B. Eastman, Director, Office of Defense Transportation, June 9, 1942. Item: Railroads at war: 1. in the U.S.A.; 2. in Germany, 1942. Item: Railroad manual on employment stabilization, September 1943. Item: Statement of Dr. Thurman W. Van Metre before the Civil Aeronautics Board, having to do with the application of certain railroads for authority to engage in local and feeder pickup services by air, April 1944. Item: How should freight rates be made? Views of government officials, shippers, railroad men and the press, November 1944. Item: An inquiry into the public health hazard of sewage disposal from railway conveyances, by. Kenneth F. Maxcey, M.D.; November 8, 1946. Item: What do you get for your billions?, January 1947. Item: The most mail ... for the least money, [ca. 1956]. Item: Clear the track!, February 1952. Item: Railroads as business organizations, 1805-1953; an introduction to some of the sources of data offered to the Business and Transportation Groups of the Washington, D.C., Chapter, Special Libraries Association, January 13, 1953. Item: What everybody should know about the mail situation, January 1955. Item: Highway costs ... and who should pay them; statement by Burton N. Behling, economist, Association of American Railroads, before the House Committee on Ways and Means on H.R. 9075; February 20, 1956. Item : "Ounce of prevention," 1958. Item: Railroads in the missile age, [ca. 1958]. Item: Your share in the railroads' future, [ca. 1958]. Item: Magna Carta ... or major crisis, 1961.

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