Word: ownership
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...Under a system of government ownership and management alone will the public interest be secure. - (a) Government interference ineffectual. - (1) Interstate Commerce Act. - (2) State Commissions. - (b) Government ownership will give - (1) Economy of administration and construction: J. S. Jeans, Railway Problems, p. 463 - (2) Better service. - (3) Greater safety - (4) Freedom from labor troubles: Arena...
...Under private ownership and management public interest is made subservient to private interest. - (a) Railroads carried on for private ends alone. - (1) Paralleling: R. T. Ely, Problems of Today. - (2) Speculation: Hadley, Railroad Transportation, ch. 3. - (b) Neglectful of public welfare. - (1) Poor service. - (2) Accidents. - (3) Discriminations: Hudson. The Railways and the Republic, ch. 2, 3, 4. - (4) "Skinning the Road." - (c) Source of corruption in politics: - T.V. Powderly, Arena...
...Government ownership is practicable. - (a) Has endorsement of practical railroad men: Lewis, p. 190 - (b) Fair trials in foreign countries have shown its practicability: Lalor III, 502. - (1) Experience of Belgium and Germany: Wm. Larrabee, The Railroad Question, p. 409. - (2) No fair trial in France and Italy: Quar. Jour. Econ., I, 453 (July 1887). - (c) Extension of service would bring about civil service reform...
...installation of the collection pertaining to American Archaeology, the installation, classification, etc., to be under the immediate direction of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, subject to the Director of the Museum, this work to be done at the expense of the trustee of Mrs. Hemenway's estate; the ownership and absolute control of the collection to remain with the said trustees, they not being prepared at this time to commit themselves to a final disposition of the same...
Question: "Resolved, That the United States should take immediate steps toward complete ownership and management of the telegraph...