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OCR Page 1 of 11Speech 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
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fullest use, not only of railroads, but also of
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motor trensport, waterways and airlines.
The economic importance of railroads cannot be
overeatimated. They constitute the nation's most
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