Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board paid and give im a cash bonus besides. He even went went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania Railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said he went to Pennsylvania on his own account and would go to no institution on other terms...
...Stone, '73 is superintendent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad...
...That government control of railroads has been unsuccessful is shown by results in (1) Belgium, (2) Germany. (3), Italy.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 217, 246, 228, 214; Spofford. The Railroad Question; Hudson, The Railways and the Republic...
...Conditions much less favorable for success of government management in a Republic. (a) Difficulty of detecting bad management. Impossibility for the public at large to do so.- Hadley, Railroad Transportation, pp. 57-60. (b) Legitimate differences in charges would not be submitted to under government ownership in a republic. Cheap transportation to a great extent dependent on such differences-Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 112. (c) Certain to be degradation of railroad offices into rewards for party service-Hudson, The Railways and the Republic, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question...
...That government ownership is no remedy for railroad abuses is shown by the equally grave abuses in govern ment departments...