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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... South Station to see the tubes in operation and to make for myself investigations to find out whether or not this report which had been submitted to us as having been made up by the representa- tives of the Post Office Department was ...
... South Station to see the tubes in operation and to make for myself investigations to find out whether or not this report which had been submitted to us as having been made up by the representa- tives of the Post Office Department was ...
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... stations into the South Station , which is the main station of tubes , or the busiest station , and every container that came into that station , with very , very few exceptions , held not less than 7 pounds , and some ran up as high as ...
... stations into the South Station , which is the main station of tubes , or the busiest station , and every container that came into that station , with very , very few exceptions , held not less than 7 pounds , and some ran up as high as ...
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... South Station , and at the same time have the clerks load a bag of mail of the same size into the carriers , and dispatch them to the sta- tion to see which would get there first . The bag of mail was taken . off the train , and the ...
... South Station , and at the same time have the clerks load a bag of mail of the same size into the carriers , and dispatch them to the sta- tion to see which would get there first . The bag of mail was taken . off the train , and the ...
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... Station and Back Bay . They have consolidated those two stations into one station , about a mile - perhaps a little less than a mile - out farther than the old Back Bay ... South Station has also in process PNEUMATIC - TUBE SERVICE . 9.
... Station and Back Bay . They have consolidated those two stations into one station , about a mile - perhaps a little less than a mile - out farther than the old Back Bay ... South Station has also in process PNEUMATIC - TUBE SERVICE . 9.
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... South Station has also in process of construction a new post - office division . That , too , is being moved out of ... stations ; and I believe that we are entitled , with the size of our mail business - we being the second largest port ...
... South Station has also in process of construction a new post - office division . That , too , is being moved out of ... stations ; and I believe that we are entitled , with the size of our mail business - we being the second largest port ...
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auto automobile service Boston Brooklyn BUTLER capacity carriers carry cent CHAIRMAN Chicago commission committee congested Congress containers contract cost delay delivery dispatch district East St EMERSON fact first-class mail Forty-second Street gentlemen Government Grand Central handling hearing hour House Hudson Terminal investigation KOONS letter mail Louis mail truck MASTEN matter ment miles MILHOLLAND minutes MORGAN morning North Philadelphia Station O'CALLAGHAN o'clock operation Pennsylvania Terminal pneumatic tubes pneumatic-tube service Post Office Department Postal Service Postmaster pouch pounds present question railroad Railway Mail Service reading representing schedule SELPH Senator HARDWICK Senator MARTINE Senator STERLING Senator TOWNSEND Senator VARDAMAN Senator WEEKS sent South Station speed statement Stock Yards STUART subway superintendent of mails TAGUE Terminal Station tion traffic train transportation trip tube company tube service tube system underground Uphams Corner vehicles wagon West York City
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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.