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Program of railroad legislation.
LIBRA 380.82 N213
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- National transportation conference, Washington, D.C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads and state--United States.
- Railroads and state.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 185 pages including folded tables, folded diagrams ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., [publisher not identified], 1919.
- Contents:
- The National transportation conference, by Richard Waterman.
- The conference plan for railroad legislation, by H. S. Wheeler.
- Program of railroad legislation adopted by the National transportation conference.
- Consolidation of railroads into strong competing systems.
- Compulsory federal incorporation for consolidated railroad systems, by A. W. Smith.
- Regulation of railroad rates by the Interstate commerce commission.
- A federal transportation board
- its power and duties, by E. R. Johnson.
- Regulation of capital expenditures and security issues.
- Re-establishment of railroad credit, by P. M. Warburg.
- The National transportation conference's proposed rule of rate-making, by W. W. Salmon.
- Organization of boards of directors of consolidated railroad companies.
- Boards of adjustment of wages and working conditions, by W. N. Doak.
- Necessity for articulation of railroads, waterways, and highways, by W. S. Dickey.
- The Chamber of cmmerce recommendations for railroad legislation, by G. A. Post.
- Principles of railroad legislation adopted by the Chamber of commerce of the United States.
- The Frelinghuysen bill
- remarks before the Senate of United States, September 15, 1919, by J. S. Freylingshuysen.
- text of the bill.
- Notes:
- Held under the auspices of the Chamber of commerce of the United States.
- Two earlier editions appeared the same year: Program of remedial railroad legislation (94 p.) and Program of railroad legislation (96 p.).
- OCLC:
- 4268113
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