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...House Committee headed by Missouri's Representative Shannon has been going up & down the land for months investigating Government-in-business. It paused fortnight ago in Chicago to take another look at Inland Waterways Corp. This $24,000,000 War Department agency headed by Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn operates a barge line on the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois Rivers to try to demonstrate to private capital the practicality of waterway transportation. For nine years the railroads have fought the barge line's competition. General Ashburn, no diplomat, has tried to placate while competing with the railroads...
...Inland Waterways Corp. would be subject to indictment for issuing deceptive reports if it were a private concern. It practically amounts to using the mails to obtain money under false pretenses. The barge line fails to figure in its cost such items as attorney's fees, printing, franking, depreciation and the expense of operating the dams and locks it uses. If people knew the facts, they'd demand prosecution. I don't know how much bookkeeping they teach at West Point but they teach obeying orders. If General Ashburn is told to make the lines...
...Rails are less competitive than other divisions of the steel industry. Only companies other than U. S. and Bethlehem making rails are Inland, National, Colorado Fuel & Iron...
...small cyclone of war vortexed, meanwhile, around Colombia's inland port of Leticia located 2,500 miles above the mighty River Amazon's mouth...
...course entitled "Water Transportation" and conducted by G. B. Roorbach, professor of Foreign Trade, will be offered in the second half year for students qualified for an intensive study of problems in ocean, coastwise, and inland transportation...