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Annual Government subsidies* found (1935-36): to waterways, $128,528,000; to railroads, $35,635,000; to air transport, $21,010,000; to motor transport, less than none...
...Motor transport figures were something else again. Taking highway users in the mass, Coordinator Eastman's report concluded that in four years (1933-37) they had paid in State and local gasoline and license taxes $276,961,000 more than their fair share of the cost of the roads. Items (in 1932): Tractor-trailers (more than five tons) paid $832 in taxes, should have paid only $545 of road costs. School busses paid only $77, should have paid $5 more. Passenger cars paid $26, hit their responsibility on the nose. Underlying these estimates was a basic assumption: that since...
Alcohol is plentiful here and not restricted to three sale-days a week. Motor and man drink from the same...
Last week TNEC heard why improving technology makes jobs from the No. 1 inheritor of that art: lean, hawk-faced Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Co., Henry's only son. It was two days after the 28,000,000th Ford had run off the assembly line in Edgewater, N. J. that he sat down before TNEC's microphone...
...until Depression I did highway hauling come into its own. By that time the trailer had become an adjunct to the inter-city truck. For, as a horse can pull more than it can carry, so a trailer pulled by a motor in a cab can outhaul a truck...