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View this article on JSTOR. View this article's JSTOR metadata. In most other European countries, railroads date from about the middle of the 19th cent. and came increasingly under government ownership and operation.
In Russia and other countries that were once part of it and the Soviet Union, railroad construction, also begun in the midth cent., received a great stimulus following the revolution, when railroads were first extended into Siberia.
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Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation is a Historical book. The history of our railroads in the last ten years is a case in point. In their early youth our railroads were allowed to grow up like spoiled, wilful, untamed children.
They were given pretty nearly everything they asked for. Book from Project Gutenberg: Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation Library of Congress Classification: HE Addeddate Call number gutenberg etext# Creator-alias Kahn, Otto H. Identifier governmentownersgut Identifier-ark ark://t3kw6k52c.
Hines was Director General of Railroads in the United States Railroad Administration during the war, and is the author of numerous pamphlets and articles on governmental and railroad problems. A fascinating account of the rise, decline, and rebirth of railroads in the United States, John F.
Stover's American Railroads traces their history Selected articles on government ownership of railroads book the first lines that helped eastern seaports capture western markets to today's newly revitalized industry.
Stover describes the growth of the railroads' monopoly, with the consequent need for. March, 9 98 SELECTED ARTICLES the government for the use of the navy, nor liable to impress- ment from the merchane marine, the government will be com- pelled to depend upon purchases in the foreign market.
The im- policy of this was shown at. Appears in 43 books from Page - Both the principal and interest of this bond are payable without deduction for any tax or taxes which the Railroad Company may be required to pay thereon or retain therefrom under any present or future law of the United States or of any state, county or municipality therein.
8 Ownership of U.S. freight rail cars in service, –09. 28 9 Rolling stock: Age distribution and percentage of Amtrak rail car fleet, December Many of these “federally granted railroad rights-of-way” still exist today, although they now often run across private lands.
Because the right-of-way grants followed the lines of the railroads, they often cut angles and curves across the rectangu-lar survey lines that the government used to divide and trans-fer most of its other public land.
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