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Speech of Senator Herry S. Trumen of Missouri to the National Forum of the Air over the Nutual Broadensting Network on Sunday evening, March 26, 1939, at eight TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY I thank the Mutuel Broadcasting Company for this opportunity to discuss a subject in which the Congress and the entire nation is so vitally interested -- the railroad problem. Our great country, to preserve its economy and to maintein its social order, must have an adequate and efficient system of trensportation; one which will move to the markets and to the dis- tant consumer, at the loweat possible cost, the cotton of the South, the menufectured products of the East, the potatoes of Idnho and Maine, the fruits of Celifornia end Florida, the grain of the Northwest and the mules of Missouri. Such e system, to be truly adequate, embodies more than a single form of transportation. It embraces the 5. fullest use, not only of railroads, but also of NARA 15 motor trensport, waterways and airlines. The economic importance of railroads cannot be overeatimated. They constitute the nation's most