Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Crowder has written a fine memorandum on this subject [limitation of Philippine sugar imports]. He has also learned that the plans of the General Staff provide that in case of war any attempt to keep a traffic lane open between the Philippines and the U. S. would be promptly abandoned. . . . We plan to use this information . . . to the best advantage...
Stirred at a possible "leak" of military secrets, the War Department began an immediate investigation. In Chicago, General Crowder denied he had revealed any General Staff plans, explained that the abandonment of the U. S. Philippine traffic lane was his own idea...
...Commission wrestled with the Congressional order, made no apparent progress. Impatient at the delay, some roads (Nickel Plate, Baltimore & Ohio, Northern Pacific) brought in voluntary merger plans only to have the Commission reject or ignore them. The Commission begged Congress to relieve it of the duty of framing a general plan. Congress did nothing. Finally, this year, the Commission buckled down to work, produced a plan which mustered a majority vote...
...general plan calls for 19 U. S. systems and two supplementary systems composed of Canadian lines entering the country. It implies a managerial unification of systems as well as financial consolidation. The Commission's prime principle was to maintain competition between systems rather than between individual roads. In each system were grouped many a short line, controlled tributary and leased feeder...
Reactions. Western senators raised a great hue and cry against the proposed marriage of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, claiming it would eliminate all competition. Chairman-elect McManamy concurred in the general plan "only because I expect economy and efficiency of operation to be promoted by the gigantic systems proposed. . . . We should not, to open the door to lawful consolidations, propose consolidations which are themselves unlawful and that I think we have done...