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Consolidation of Railroads

by Walter M. W. Splawn. 294 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Walter M. W. Splawn

Publisher:

   The Macmillan Company

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1925
Subjects:   Railroads--United States, Railroads--Mergers
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1.
Consolidation of Railroads
Book by Walter M. W. Splawn; The Macmillan Company, 1925
Subjects: Railroads--Mergers, Railroads--United States
...railroads of the United States may be grouped...Consolidation of railroads became a question...consolidation of all the railroads in the United States into a comparatively...financially well-balanced railroads in the United States, a monument to...
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Stop, Look and Listen: Railroad Transportation in the United States
Book by David Hinshaw, W. Espey Albig; Doubleday, Doran, 1932
Subjects: Railroads--United States
...late Richard Waterman of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States; also William N. Doak, who subsequently became Secretary...Judge William E. Lamb of Chicago, attorney for the Western railroads; George LeBoutillier, vice president of the Pennsylvania...
3.
Railroads and Government: Their Relations in the United States, 1910-1921
Book by Frank Haigh Dixon; C. Scribners Sons, 1922
Subjects: Railroads And State--United States
RAILROADS AND GOVERNMENT RAILROADS AND GOVERNMENT THEIR RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 1910-1921 BY FRANK...federal regulation of railroads in the United States...exhaustive volumes -- Railroads: Rates and Regulation...
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Railroad Mergers and the Language of Unification
Book by James B. Burns; Quorum Books, 1998
Subjects: Railroads--Mergers--United States--History, Railroads--United States--Finance
...ISBN 1-56720-166-0 alk. paper 1. Railroads -- Mergers -- United States -- History. 2. Railroad law -- United...of the century about one-sixth of the railroads in the United States had been involved in mergers. 5 This...
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Railroads, the Free Enterprise Alternative
Book by Daniel L. Overbey; Quorum Books, 1982
Subjects: Railroads And State--United States, Railroads--United States--Management
...Management. 2. Railroads and state--United States. I. Title...demands of the railroads themselves...standardization in the United States today is taken...due to the United States economic growth...Although the railroads carried enormous...
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The Shifting Sands of Property Rights, Federal Railroad Grants, and Economic History: Hash V. United States and the Threat to Rail-Trail Conversions
Journal article by Danaya C. Wright; Environmental Law, Vol. 38, 2008
Subjects: Hash v. United States--403 F.3d 1308 (Fed. Cir. 2005), Land grants--Laws, regulations and rules, Property rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Right of property--Laws, regulations and rules, Right of way--Laws, regulations and rules, Trails--Laws, regulations and rules
...Circuit, in Hash v. United States, (3) decided the...has granted to railroads a right-of-way...the title of the railroads in their rights-of-way...public lands of the United States. The concept of...holding that the railroads received only qualified...property of the United States." (240) E.C. Finney...
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The United States-Japan Gateway Awards Case of 1990: International Competition and Regulatory Theory
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Subjects: Aeronautics and state--Analysis, Airlines--Management, Industrial policy--Analysis
...once given to ports, railroads, and highways for place...investment occurring in the United States, governors, mayors...and the Southwestern United States (LV-R, 2). The Arizona...alliances. By 1993, the United States had ongoing disputes...
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Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States
Journal article by Herbert Hovenkamp; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 108, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States (Book)--Reviews
...ANTITRUST REVOLUTION 290 (John E. Kwoka Lawrence J. White eds., 2d. ed. 1994). (96.) See Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States, 410 U.S. 366, 368-69 (1973). The Averch Johnson effect may explain anticompetitive refusals to deal, in that the utility...
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Regulatory Economics: Survey of Reading Materials in Universities in Canada and the United States
Journal article by Tadiboyina Venkateswarlu; American Economist, Vol. 43, 1999
Subjects: Economics--Surveys, Educational surveys--Analysis
...and Related Fields: United States of America and Canada...of U.S. and Canadian Railroads." Quarterly Journal...Penetration in the United States." American Economic...Distilled Spirits in the United States." Journal of Industrial...
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The Secret History of Race in the United States.
Journal article by Daniel J. Sharfstein; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 112, 2003
Subjects: Spencer v. Looney--82 S.E. 745 (Va. 1914)
...Louisiana could indemnify railroads from lawsuits seeking "damages...understand it to be conceded by the states attorney that such part of...of different forms, but are united by a common perception that...Southern states over indemnifying railroads for mistaken racial identification). The emergence of railroads as a primary locus for suits...
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Coming through! the NAFTA Super Highway: The Planned NAFTA Super Highway Would Radically Reconfigure Not Only the Physical Landscape of These United States, but Our Political and Economic Landscapes as Well
Magazine article by Kelly Taylor; The New American, Vol. 22, August 7, 2006
Subjects: Free Trade Agreement, 1992, United States-Canada-Mexico, Freeways--Economic aspects, Highways--Economic aspects, United States--Economic aspects, United States--Political aspects
...called on the NAFTA governments (Mexico, Canada, and the United States) to create a North American Commission of "distinguished...Mexico," as well as "a plan that would permit mergers of the railroads and development of high-speed rail corridors." Pastor cited...
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The Secret Is the System: The United States Has Settled for a Patchwork Approach to Infrastructure. to Stay Ahead in the Global Economy, It Needs to Build Adaptable Networks like the 1956 Interstate Highway System
Magazine article by Bruce Seely; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Spring 2008
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics)--Forecasts and trends, Public works--Economic aspects, Public works--Political aspects, Transportation construction--Economic aspects, Transportation construction--Political aspects
...transportation must be an integrated system, not just a patchwork of roads, railroads, and ports. Engler is not alone in arguing that a national plan is needed to keep the United States globally competitive. Other rationales for infrastructure investment...
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Race and Labor Organization in the United States
Magazine article by Michael Goldfield; Monthly Review, Vol. 49, July 1997
Subjects: Economic history--Analysis, Labor movement--Economic policy
...by Michael Goldfield In the United States of America, the fate of labor - its...Alabama, iron and steel, longshore, railroads, tobacco, food processing, and wood...similar pressure on Ford and GM and on the railroads. In all these cases in Louisville they...
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How the West Was Lost: Chris Smallbone Explains the Effect of United States Expansion on the Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Mid-19th Century
Magazine article by Chris Smallbone; History Today, Vol. 56, April 2006
Subjects: Native American treaties--History, Native Americans--History, Native Americans--Treaties, Native North Americans--History, United States history, United States--History
...Apart from one or two later additions, todays map of the United States was firmly in place. To understand how this took place one...the completion of the transcontinental and Kansas Pacific Railroads in the late 1860s. A series of treaties were signed, confining...
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Magazine article by M. Kay Harris; Corrections Today, Vol. 60, December 1998
Subjects: Corrections--History, Inmates of institutions--Demographic aspects, Women prisoners--History
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Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 26, 2006
Subjects: Airlines, JetBlue Airways Corp., United States. Air Force
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 16, 2006
Subjects: Electioneering, Political campaigns, Railroads, United States. Federal Election Commission
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National Express Takeover Fails
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 23, 2009
Subjects: FirstGroup PLC--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Railroads--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments
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Laing Is Valued at Pounds 800m in Takeover
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 20, 2006
Subjects: Chiltern Railways--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Construction industry--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, John Laing PLC--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Railroads--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments
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First Walk Away from Takeover; Inbrief
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), July 23, 2009
Subjects: FirstGroup PLC--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Railroads--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Civil War. Thus developed an economy based on steel, oil, railroads, and machines, an economy that a few decades after the Civil...attention were directed toward the Pacific and the Caribbean. The United States established commercial and then political hegemony in the...
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Iowa , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Native American lands in the region had been ceded to the United States. Meanwhile, a great rush of frontiersmen came to settle the...establishment of a number of colleges and universities. Statehood, Railroads, and Reform Movements Iowa became a state in 1846, and...
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New York , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...once a major route to the Great Lakes and the midwestern United States as well as the only complete natural route through the Appalachian...cement, salt, and zinc. The state has a complex system of railroads, air routes, and modern highways, notably the New York State...
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Florida , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...promoters. Northern capitalists such as Henry M. Flagler built railroads and hotels, and Florida began to develop. The drainage of the Everglades, begun in 1906, precipitated one of the states periodic land booms. Because of environmental degradation...problems. In 1980 more than 100,000 Cuban refugees came to the United States, mostly through Florida, after Fidel Castro briefly...
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Arkansas , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...States ar k nso , arkan zus, state in the south-central United States. It is bordered by Tennessee and Mississippi, across the...transportation network is based on rivers as well as roads, railroads, and air travel. The 440 mi (708 km) Arkansas River Navigation...
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