Pneumatic-tube Service: Hearing Before the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, United States Senate, Sixty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 19410...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - 403 pages |
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... Grand Central Station and the Pennsylvania Station in New York City , but when bids were asked for them some years ago , or when the matter was taken up by the Post Office Department , as I remember it , it was found that it would cost ...
... Grand Central Station and the Pennsylvania Station in New York City , but when bids were asked for them some years ago , or when the matter was taken up by the Post Office Department , as I remember it , it was found that it would cost ...
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... Grand Central and Times Square Stations , but that the contract be not renewed unless a very material reduction in cost is secured . " It is further proposed that if contracts are entered into they shall be for the term of 10 years ...
... Grand Central and Times Square Stations , but that the contract be not renewed unless a very material reduction in cost is secured . " It is further proposed that if contracts are entered into they shall be for the term of 10 years ...
Page 85
... Grand Central to Forty - second Street and Fifth Avenue , taxi , 5 minutes ; walking , 3 minutes . Grand Central to Thirty - fourth Street and back , taxi , 26 minutes ; walking 23 minutes . Shopping tour , from Grand Central to Thirty ...
... Grand Central to Forty - second Street and Fifth Avenue , taxi , 5 minutes ; walking , 3 minutes . Grand Central to Thirty - fourth Street and back , taxi , 26 minutes ; walking 23 minutes . Shopping tour , from Grand Central to Thirty ...
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... Grand Central Terminal and went suc- cessively to Altman's , Mark Cross's , Lord & Taylor's , Arnold Constable & Co.'s and then to the Public Library , spending 10 minutes in each place . This tour required exactly 78 minutes . To do ...
... Grand Central Terminal and went suc- cessively to Altman's , Mark Cross's , Lord & Taylor's , Arnold Constable & Co.'s and then to the Public Library , spending 10 minutes in each place . This tour required exactly 78 minutes . To do ...
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... Grand Central was ⚫ blocked by taxis and waiting automobiles , so that the chauffeur , in order to avoid discharging his passenger in the middle of the street , needs must go clear back to Vanderbilt Avenue . To understand why it takes ...
... Grand Central was ⚫ blocked by taxis and waiting automobiles , so that the chauffeur , in order to avoid discharging his passenger in the middle of the street , needs must go clear back to Vanderbilt Avenue . To understand why it takes ...
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Page 29 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 379 - I do not want to take up the time of the committee but I am very much interested.
Page 100 - The CHAIRMAN. Does any member of the committee desire to ask Mr.
Page 1 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes...
Page 256 - If the questions are treated as dichotomous choices (ie, if we exclude 'don't know' responses), then theoretically respondents can choose any one of 16 different combinations or logics, as follows: useful risky morally acceptable encourage yes or no yes or no...
Page 103 - Whoever shall knowingly and willfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail...
Page 288 - State organization, which simply serves as a water-distribution agency, is here and I would like to have him make a statement to the committee.
Page 58 - ... operation, and to Army and Navy stations. State participation was more limited still, but cities were urgent in their protests that in providing an airport they were serving the general good far beyond their own bounds, and should be reimbursed.
Page 5 - Washington, DC The committee met at 10.30 o'clock am, in the committee room of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Hon.
Page 71 - The CHAIRMAN. The committee will stand adjourned until 10.30 o'clock to-morrow morning and will meet in the Ways and Means Committee room on the southeast corner.