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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... railroad stations ; and I believe that we are entitled , with the size of our mail business - we being the second largest port of entry in the United States in the line of commerce - that the business interests demand the best mail ...
... railroad stations ; and I believe that we are entitled , with the size of our mail business - we being the second largest port of entry in the United States in the line of commerce - that the business interests demand the best mail ...
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... railroads underground and putting one on top of the , other , and it occurred to me that it might be possible , if this is so much the better way to send letters , that the service might be enlarged so as to carry the i ד י of larger ...
... railroads underground and putting one on top of the , other , and it occurred to me that it might be possible , if this is so much the better way to send letters , that the service might be enlarged so as to carry the i ד י of larger ...
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... railroad station of delivery a office , and the time consumed from general post office is 14 minutes eldet oft no Appendix ( 6 , Boston shows thoto Sunday , July 30 , 1916 mail to Boston on the Providence - New York railway post ...
... railroad station of delivery a office , and the time consumed from general post office is 14 minutes eldet oft no Appendix ( 6 , Boston shows thoto Sunday , July 30 , 1916 mail to Boston on the Providence - New York railway post ...
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... railroads , etc. Supposing it was not a Government mongngly don't y you suppose the public would demand the very hest service in these cities , and don't you suppose they would make the private companies , go to it and , give the very ...
... railroads , etc. Supposing it was not a Government mongngly don't y you suppose the public would demand the very hest service in these cities , and don't you suppose they would make the private companies , go to it and , give the very ...
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... railroad terminals , one on the north and the other on the south side of the city , and the streets between these points and the general post office are filled with traffic of all descriptions , which makes rapid progress , either by ...
... railroad terminals , one on the north and the other on the south side of the city , and the streets between these points and the general post office are filled with traffic of all descriptions , which makes rapid progress , either by ...
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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.