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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... West , frequently it may be in winter they are late . Now , if they should wait - if it should be necessary to wait until those mails are loaded onto the trucks and sent to the post office it would mean that possibly a considerable part ...
... West , frequently it may be in winter they are late . Now , if they should wait - if it should be necessary to wait until those mails are loaded onto the trucks and sent to the post office it would mean that possibly a considerable part ...
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... west side of Central Park , and that that letter is to be delivered down in the neighborhood of Station D , which is down on Thirteenth Street and Fourth Avenue . If automobile trucks are used for transporting that letter it will have ...
... west side of Central Park , and that that letter is to be delivered down in the neighborhood of Station D , which is down on Thirteenth Street and Fourth Avenue . If automobile trucks are used for transporting that letter it will have ...
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... west . I pass uptown every day in an official car , with the right of way over all traffic , and I tell you that I can not make my way up and down town quickly in these cases of congestion . It can not be done . There is a massing of ...
... west . I pass uptown every day in an official car , with the right of way over all traffic , and I tell you that I can not make my way up and down town quickly in these cases of congestion . It can not be done . There is a massing of ...
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... West Sides ? Mr. MITCHEL . I could not tell you from the data I have in hand the location of these accidents , but they can very easily be furnished to the committee , if that is desirable . And the final statistics on that point show ...
... West Sides ? Mr. MITCHEL . I could not tell you from the data I have in hand the location of these accidents , but they can very easily be furnished to the committee , if that is desirable . And the final statistics on that point show ...
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... west . Eighty - sixth Street and Boadway .. Ninety - sixth Street and Broadway . One hundred and tenth Street and Eighth Avenue .. One hundred and sixteenth Street and Fifth Avenue . One hundred and sixteenth Streets , Seventh and St ...
... west . Eighty - sixth Street and Boadway .. Ninety - sixth Street and Broadway . One hundred and tenth Street and Eighth Avenue .. One hundred and sixteenth Street and Fifth Avenue . One hundred and sixteenth Streets , Seventh and St ...
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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.