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SPEECH BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN TRUGKING AT the Tuesday su Fourn
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS To AMERIOA
ASSOCIATION, DOTOBER 23, 1939
Neer York City
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FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
I ha ve been asked to talk to you about transportation. It is a
very large subject. Hauling freight and passengers has been the most important
business since governments began. Rome's roads made her great. Britain's sea
of the sea a recienecialnation.
control has made her greate Fast transportation and instant communication
The
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across a whole continent made the United States of Ame rica great nation all tices.
In the year of 1607 a handful of English came to the mouth of the James River
in Virginia and founded a colony. It took them somo three months to make the
trip. A few days ago a passenger plane made that trip in twenty-sever hours.
betosis
From 1846 to 1854 my grandfather was in the freighting business from
Independence, Missouri, to Salt Lake City, Utah. It was customary for him to
start from Independence in March or April and arrive on his return from the
round trip in September or October -- from three to four months for the one
way trip. The transcontinental planes makre that trip in nine hours or a little
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When John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay went to Ghent to negotiate a
treaty with Great Britain af ter the War of 1812, it took them three months to
make the trip, and they were not able to communicate with James Madison, the
President of the United States, at all while the negotiations were in progress.
When Woodrow Wilson was in Paris negotiating the treaty of Versailles, everyone
in the United States was familiar with all that went on as soon as it happened.
to
has been said that the inventor of the wheel was the creator of
thank
the greatest boon to mankind. No one knows who he was, but he certainly
contributed to the ease of getting from one lace to another. In 1854 the Pony
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