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id: 19757
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
title: 'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.
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  Preparedness is proportionately of as much benefit to the individual as to the Nation, and if consideration is now given by the shippers to the few problems that may be confronting them in connection with highway transportation, they will be in a position to profit by this form of transportation when the needs arise. In the meantime shipments can be made over those routes which have been designated for highway transportation.


id: 18878
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
title: Return-Loads Bureaus to Save Waste in Transportation
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  The purpose is to take some of the burden of the short haul off the railroads and put it on motor trucks operating over the highways. Consequently, any Chamber of Commerce in a city whose merchants are adversely affected by rail embargoes and delays, freight congestion, or lack of sufficient and direct rail transportation, and where there is any considerable number of motor trucks, will not be embarking upon a doubtful experiment in establishing such a bureau.


id: 19758
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
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title:
  Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense

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  The Council of National Defense approves the widest possible use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests the State Councils of Defense and other State authorities to take all necessary steps to facilitate such means of transportation, removing any regulations that tend to restrict and discourage such use. CHAPIN AND GENTLEMEN: It would be a truism to say that I have always been interested in transportation.


id: 19799
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
title: The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.
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  The preliminary surveys by the highways transport committee in sections of Maryland and Virginia have shown that farmers and merchants enthusiastically indorse the plan and wherever rural motor express lines have been properly developed they have received the support of the communities which they serve. A preliminary survey for the State of California has been made, showing an extensive use of motor trucks for passenger, freight, and express hauling throughout that state.


id: 19759
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
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title:
  Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense

summary:
  Men are discouraged and disheartened when they look at the problem of pulling an Oregon fir stump out of the ground. There is a work that ties up directly with your work, because I want to have small communities in which men have small acreages of land, not to speculate with but to cultivate; and these acreages are to center in small communities where men can talk together and profit by their own mistakes and their own successes and where those small communities will be tied up with all neighboring communities, so that there will be easy access between all parts of the country.


id: 28607
author: Potter, Burton Willis
title: The Road and the Roadside
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  The Romans, possessors of great wealth and abundant slave-labor, built their military and public roads in direct lines from place to place, regardless of expense. Believing that good roads and the love of rural life are essential to the true happiness and lasting prosperity of any people, these pages have been written with the sincere desire to do something to improve our roads and to encourage country life; and they are now given to the public with the hope that they will exert some little influence in promoting these objects.


id: 33706
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
title: The Future of Road-making in America
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  Although it is impracticable, and in many cases impossible, for communities to build good stone roads, a surface of gravel may frequently be used to advantage, giving far better results than could be attained by the use of earth alone. Maurice O. Eldridge's careful article, Good Roads for Farmers, revised by the author for this volume.


id: 41143
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
title: Boone's Wilderness Road
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  Henderson's plan was to purchase from the Cherokees the great territory lying south of the Kentucky River--one-half the present state of Kentucky. Before Richard Henderson arrived in Kentucky Daniel Boone wrote him: My advice to you, sir, is to come or send as soon as possible.


id: 41152
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
title: Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers
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  The Governor detach'd a party to bury the Dead, and to look for the Indians, they found a Child standing in the Water scalp'd, which had 2 holes in its Skull, they brought it to the Doctor, who dressed it but Died in a Week.[37] June 10^{th}: the last Division of His Majesty's Forces March'd from _Wills Creek_ with General Braddock, when the General Arrived at the little Meadows 22 Miles from the _Creek_, and having all his Forces w^{th}. CHAPTER VII SPARKS AND ATKINSON ON BRADDOCK'S ROUTE[46] Several months ago we received from that indefatigable delver in the early annals of our country, Jared Sparks, Esq., of Salem, Massachusetts, a letter containing some valuable information as to the route of General Braddock after leaving Gist's farm, not far from where Connelsville now stands.


id: 41067
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 1)
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  And be it further enacted, by authority of aforesaid, that no wagon or other carriage with wheels the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches, shall be driven along said road between the first day of December and the first day of May following in any year or years, with a greater weight thereon than two and a half tons, or with more than three tons during the rest of the year; that no such carriage, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be seven inches, or being six inches or more shall roll at least ten inches, shall be drawn along said road between the said day of December and May with more than five tons, or with more than five and a half tons during the rest of the year; that no carriage or cart with two wheels, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches, shall be drawn along said road with a greater weight thereon than one and a quarter tons between the said first days of December and May, or with more than one and a half tons during the rest of the year; no such carriage, whose wheels shall be of the breadth of seven inches shall be driven along the said road with more than two and one half tons between the first days of December and May, or more than three tons during the rest of the year; that no such carriage whose wheels shall not be ten inches in width shall be drawn along the said road between the first days of December and May with more than three and a half tons, or with more than four tons the rest of the year; that no cart, wagon or carriage of burden whatever, whose wheels shall not be the breadth of nine inches at least, shall be drawn or pass in or over the said road or any part thereof with more than six horses, nor shall more than eight horses be attached to any carriage whatsoever used on said road, and if any wagon or other carriage shall be drawn along said road by a greater number of horses or with a greater weight than is hereby permitted, one of the horses attached thereto shall be forfeited to the use of said company, to be seized and taken by any of their officers or servants, who shall have the privilege to choose which of the said horses they may think proper, excepting the shaft or wheel horse or horses, provided always that it shall and may be lawful for said company by their by-laws to alter any and all of the regulations here contained respecting burdens or carriages to be drawn over the said road and substituting other regulations, if on experience such alterations should be found conducive of public good. After studying the ground I believe this is more or less incorrect; for what we should call Braddock's route was composed of many roads and tracks.


id: 41030
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 2)
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  Taking it through the years, few roads have remained of such constant benefit to the territory into which they ran, and today you will be told that no railway has benefited that mountainous district so much as this great thoroughfare. When we returned to the house I asked Mr Simkins to give me his name & the name of the place he asked me the name of the child I told him he took his pen & ink & rote the following lines Alligany County Marriland July the 14^{th} 1796 died John P Allen at the house of John Simkins at atherwayes bear camplain broadaggs old road half way between fort Cumberland & Uniontown.[29]


id: 29420
author: Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
title: American Rural Highways
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  It has become apparent, from the nature of the defects observed in all sorts of road surfaces, that to neglect or minimize the importance of drainage in connection with either earth roads or any class of surfaced roads is to invite rapid deterioration of some sections of the roadway surface and to add to maintenance costs. = rolling resistance of road surface.


id: 44684
author: Cartwright, Julia
title: The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury
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  Old houses and timbered barns, with lofty gables and irregular roofs, are grouped round the church, which is itself as picturesque an object as any, with its massive towers and curious old red-tiled Galilee porch. The bright little market-square, full of old houses with massive oak beams, and quaint corners jutting out in all directions, hardly agrees with Hasted's description of Lenham as a dull, unfrequented place, where nothing thrives in the barren soil, and the inhabitants, when asked by travellers if this is Lenham, invariably reply, Ah, sir, poor Lenham!


id: 40759
author: Belloc, Hilaire
title: The Old Road
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words: 56358
sentence: 1894
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  =Jolly Farmer=, Inn at Puttenham, 160. =Kemsing=, manor of, 226; on map, 227. =Kent=, shape of, forces Old Road westward, 18; causes complexity of tides in Straits of Dover, 31-32. =Kentish Drover=, the, 253 (note 1). =Reef=, of Calvados, 50; off Ventnor, 55. =Reformation=, effect of, on Old Road, 221-224. =Reigate=, derivation of name of, and relation to Old Road, 199. =Religion=, effect of a road on development of, 7; effect of Dark Ages on, in Britain, 80; preserves and recovers Old Road, 92-94. =Representative System=, monastic origin of, 86. =Richborough=, one of original harbours on northern shore of the Straits, 35 (Rutupiae); alternative harbour in original crossing, 36. =Road=, the, primeval importance of, 4-5. =---- Old.= See '=Old Road=.' =Road, Roman.= See '=Roman Road=.' =---- Flanking.=


