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...joining the various roads to trunk lines which reach the New England gateways, however, the aim of the Transportation Act can be accomplished; the strong lines will be used as the financial backbones and the existing problem of the apportionment of through rates will disappear. All the earnings from one system will go into a main treasury from which the subordinate operating units will receive the necessary support. In this way the railroads of New England will be restored to a sound financial basis and the spectre of public ownership avoided...
...does not matter what the French or the Russians or the Little Entente or any of the rest to at Genoa; except that it is more pleasant to buy bathing suits (and use them) than to swelter over trunk-packing...
...some such consolidation must take place, is regarded as inevitable if the New England lines are to survive. Professor Ripley's plan calls for a grouping of unified lines, gaining new strength from the combination, with the necessary competition maintained by leaving the Boston and Albany and the Grand Trunk systems in their present status. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the scheme is the proposal that the state governments have a part-control in the new systems; it has even been suggested that the states assume full financial responsibility...
...profited to the greatest extent by war conditions, and in working rules. Much publicity has been given to the effect of these restrictive rules. It is not necessary for me to refer to them in detail, but as one example might be cited the case of an important eastern trunk-line, to which these rules alone are causing an additional yearly expense of $14,900,000, a sum sufficient to pay 5 percent on the capital stock of the company...
...event throughout the country, a second wire with extra equipment is usually installed and an expert "lineman" is in the building to watch the circuit and make a quick shift to the reserve wire if necessary. At the Boston Bureau, where the loop is connected with the trunk circuits, still another man "rides" the wire, listening to the matter going over it and quickly detecting any sound that indicates that at any point the "Morse" is not being received smoothly and clearly. In this way The Associated Press carries the news to 60,000,000 readers daily...