TRANSPORTATION: Three Railroad Steps

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President Roosevelt sat up until 3 o'clock one morning last week drafting a message to Congress on the railroads. In his campaign speech at Salt Lake City last September he promised, if elected, to stand back of the steam carriers for a specified period to boost them over the hump of hard times. Last week's message, with the customary White House bill in tow, was his first move in that direction. Not since the Railway Labor Act of 1926 has Congress seriously sunk its teeth into the railroad...

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