Mail Tunnel, New York CityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 132 páginas |
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automobile Avenue Baldwin locomotive BEAKES believe build built Burleson capacity carry the mail cent CHAIRMAN COLLINS commission committee congestion Congress connection construction course delivery diameter DUNBAR EMERSON engineers equipment estimate feet figures first-class mail FISHER freight GOLDFOGLE Government grade Grand Central Station HALVOR STEENERSON hand trucks hearing idea inches increased interposing KOONS labor LAGUARDIA letters loaded London MADDEN mail matter mail tunnel ment miles per hour MILHOLLAND MOON motor MURRAY Oliver bill PAIGE parcel post Pennsylvania Station Pennsylvania Terminal pneumatic tubes pneumatic-tube service pneumatic-tube system points Post Office Department Postmaster practically proposed proposition PUTNAM question rail railroad stations RAMSEYER special-delivery speed statement streets STUART style of tunnel submitted surface SUTTON terminal stations testimony thing tion to-day tons track traffic trucks tube service tube system underground transportation unloading volume of mail York City
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Página 58 - Chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR.
Página 58 - In the annual report of the Postmaster General for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Página 123 - Yard in the city of New York. Be it enacted by the Sen-ate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the...
Página 79 - We have lost our ideal. (Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman.) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Friday, May 21, 1926.
Página 128 - Mitchel, then mayor of New York. In such of these documents as originated with the Post Office Department or with the Hon. AB Rouse, passages are cited which are prima facie evidence that the statements in the President's veto message were put before him by the Post Office Department and were not the result of his own investigation or knowledge of the subject. The same allegations appear in such documents and the veto message. The citations from other documents are in the nature of prima facie evidence...
Página 129 - ... of letters are delayed annually from these causes." From the Postmaster General's letter to the Senate, April 23, 1918: "The tubes * * * delay millions of letters annually. "Because of their unreliability, due to breakdowns and stoppages, the tubes cease operation for hours and even days at a time, and it is often necessary to dig up the streets to obtain the mail clogged in the tubes. When this occurs it is necesaary to immediately substitute vehicle service, which results in confusion of schedules,...
Página 58 - October 24. 1912, appointed a committee to investigate and report on the advisability of the establishment of mail service between the Grand Central and the Pennsylvania terminals in New York, NY, either by a pneumatic or an electric tube system.
Página 132 - The operating records of the pneumatic tube companies show that their service is as near perfect as any mechanical service possibly could be.
Página 128 - ... refutations of the Post Office Department's propaganda against the tubes; a leading feature of the controversy that constitutes the literature of this chapter of congressional history. (The document referred to is here printed in full as follows:) ANSWER TO STATEMENTS WHICH THE POSTMASTER GENERAL IN A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE POST OFFICE COMMITTEE AND EACH MEMBER OF THE SENATE, DATED APRIL 23, 1918, GIVES AS REASONS FOR PROTESTING AGAINST THE ENACTMENT OF AN AMENDMENT IN...
Página 128 - ... and merely placed before him for his signature ; that these allegations were incorrect and false ; and that the effect of the whole proceeding was to cause the President of the United States, acting in his official capacity, to cause injury to the public service and the practical confiscation of the value of a public utility under a wide misconception induced in his mind by those who put such misleading information before him.