Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, Volume 28

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Page 539 - ... national concern; that the property employed must be permitted to earn a reasonable return; that the building of unnecessary lines involves a waste of resources and that the burden of this waste may fall upon the public; that competition between carriers may result in harm to the public as well as in benefit; and that when a railroad inflicts injury upon its rival, it may be the public which ultimately bears the loss.
Page 537 - The Bureau of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 273 - An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes...
Page 471 - In witness whereof the parties hereto have executed this Agreement, the day and year first above written.
Page 1065 - Concrete shall be handled from the mixer to the place of final deposit as rapidly as practicable by methods which shall prevent the separation or loss of the ingredients.
Page 1111 - Care should be taken to keep the needle clean, as the collection of cement on the sides of the needle retards the penetration, while cement on the point reduces the area and tends to increase the penetration.
Page 272 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes," approved February 28, 1919, and all other Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
Page 538 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line of railroad...
Page 1102 - ... solution of barium chloride shall be added slowly, drop by drop, from a pipette and the boiling continued until the precipitate is well formed. The solution shall be digested on the steam bath until the precipitate has settled.
Page 699 - Pockets or depressions which would hold water shall have drain holes, or be filled with waterproof material. 35. Main members shall be so designed that the neutral axis will be as nearly as practicable in the center of section, and the neutral axes of intersecting main members...

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