Americas Part in the World War a History of the Full Greatness of Our Country
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All terminals, ports, locomotives, rolling stock, and other transportation facilities were pooled. Coal was given the right of way, which brought about great relief In those sections of the country which in the winter of 1917-18 had been suffering from fuel shortage. More than two hundred and fifty passenger trains were dropped from the schedule of eastern roads, permitting a great increase in freight traffic. Empty box cars were sent to the wheat producing centers to carry wheat to the Atlanti...c seacoast for shipment to England and France. On July 16, 1918, President Wilson signed the bill author- izing the President to take control of all telegraph, telephone, cable and radio lines, and later assumed such control. The transportation of the American Army across the ocean was the greatest military feat of its kind ever accom- plished in history. The railroads in existence were not sufficient, and it was necessary to build new roads, new docks, new terminals, both in America and in France.
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