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It is good business for the railroads, but it is bad business for business. One angle of the transportation problem to which too few men are paying attention is this useless hauling of material.
If transportation was needed for other purposes, it was obtained by requisition from the invaded country, just as food and forage were secured.
If they want to continue receiving Federal grants in such areas as transportation, education, and social services, they can use their trust fund money to pay for the grants. Or to the extent they choose to forgo the Federal grant programs, they can use their trust fund money on their own for those or other purposes.
Wherever such improvements may facilitate the march of troops, the transportation of cannon, or otherwise aid the operations or mitigate the calamities of war along the coast or in any part of the interior they would be useful for military purposes, and might therefore be made.
Care was, however, taken, in conformity with his instructions, to secure means of communication. The transportation of stores, equipage, and instruments was rendered unexpectedly easy by a steamboat running from Portland to St. John, and by the politeness of the British consul at Portland and the collector of Her Britannic Majesty's customs at St.
In addition, the Congress must address the urgent funding problems of the highway trust fund, and the need to generate greater revenues. Continued increases in the cost of fuel are expected to make transit a growing part of the nation's transportation system.
They had the real thing, and they had a real leader a very boyish looking boy of scant twenty-five. They forgot to watch the thermometer. They were more interested in water and transportation and labor and all the other things that are as necessary to a good mine as the gold in the ore-veins. Occasionally, however, they had some relaxation. For one thing, they thought sometimes about food.
In the present state of our arts there is one great occupation which we cannot conceive to be carried on without the services of horses. This is war. It is hardly too much to say that all our highly elaborated military system has depended for its development, as it does for its maintenance, on the transportation value of horses.
Usually, the Mormon expeditions southward started well after the summer season, when the crossing could be made without particular danger. The Ute ford could hardly be made possible for wagon transportation, so there was early effort to find a route for a through road.
"Likin stations have been established at places where railway communication is available. This has done a good deal of harm to transportation and the railway traffic. Lately a proposal has been made in certain quarters that likin stations along the railways be abolished; and the measure has been adopted by the Peking-Tientsin and Tientsin-Pukow Railways at certain places.
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