One-fourth of all the railroad mileage in the U. S. is in the hands of the courts. The Federal Government has loaned nearly half a billion dollars to keep the carriers afloat. Yet so far there has been no first-class public investigation of U. S. railroads. Last February the Senate, deciding it was high time, to have one, authorized the Interstate Commerce Committee to get busy. Last week Transportation Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman, at the invitation of the Senate, presented Commerce Committee Chairman Burton K. Wheeler with...
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