Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
Regulation of Railway Rates
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author: Albert J. ChurellaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Index to the Subjects of the Documents and Reports and to the Committees, Senators, and Representatives Presenting Them
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Index to the Subjects of the Documents and Reports and to the Committees, Senators, and Representatives Presenting Them
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the United States Senate
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1868
Book Description
Report of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada
Author: Board of Transport Commissioners for CanadaPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
THE FAIR RATE OF RETURN IN PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION.
Author: Nelson Lee SmithAnnual Report
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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