Author : Edwin Jones Clapp
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ISBN 13 : 9781331879343
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)
Book Synopsis Transportation, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) by : Edwin Jones Clapp
Download or read book Transportation, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint) written by Edwin Jones Clapp and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transportation, Vol. 15 This book attempts to tell the man who buys railroad transportation the things that he should know about railroads, their rates, their services, and their place in the general scheme of business. The space limits imposed preclude a discussion of railroad organization. In this country the railroads have attained the highest development in the science of organizing and managing with efficiency great masses of men - many of them constantly in motion - over whom personal supervision by the heads of the companies is not possible. This book is not intended as a handbook for traffic experts. Therefore it omits any description of the detail of packing, routing, shipping documents or shipping records, but this information may be secured from a special report on this subject. The financing of railroads, the investment status of railroad securities, the question of government ownership vs. private ownership, are all treated in other d104s of this Course. In certain portions of this d104, particularly the two chapters on export and import rates, "The Port of Boston," by E. J. Clapp, has been freely drawn upon, acknowledgment of which is hereby made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.