Boxcar Shortage
Boxcar Shortage

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1947

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Considers legislation to provide for more effective regulation of railroad freight car service; to enact tax credits to assist in building of new freight-carrying equipment; and to establish a Bureau of Service in the ICC to administer freight car matters.

American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994
American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

Author: Charles F. Ritter

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1997-11-25

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0313032076

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The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Entries provide basic biographical and career information on more than 1,400 speakers. The book opens with an analytical introduction and includes useful statistical appendixes. The four volumes, covering state speakers in the West, Midwest, Northeast, and South, are designed to complement Charles R. Ritter's and Jon L. Wakelyn's book American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (1989).