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FreightWaves Classics: U S railroads were nationalized in World War I
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FreightWaves Classics: U.S. railroads were nationalized in World War I An active Pennsylvania Railroad railyard during World War I. (Photo: University of Pennsylvania Archives)
and railroads was included.
This article expands on the information, presenting an overview of the nationalization of most of America’s railroads during World War I.
Railroad problems prior to World War I
Interstate Commerce Commission seal.
Congress and the Wilson administration had tried to intervene in the railroad industry’s economic struggles for several years. By 1916, there were severe problems within the nation’s railroad system. Many of the problems stemmed from the expanded powers given to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) when the Hepburn Rate Act of 1906 was passed by Congress.
Why the Navy Ignored Evidence That the Battleship Age was Ending
In 1921, a controversial military exercise demonstrated to the world the power of aerial warfare in the naval domain.
Here s What You Need To Remember: While this did not wean the Navy off expensive battleships in the short term, it did expose their vulnerability from the air, and the Navy did seemingly hedge its bets later on by producing the Lexington-class aircraft carriers. The exercises also undoubtedly increased the Army Air Service’s influence, which set the stage for the larger Army Air Corps of the Second World War.
In 1921, a controversial military exercise demonstrated to the world the power of aerial warfare in the naval domain. The live-fire exercise off the coast of Virginia, in which several ships were sunk, accurately predicted air power’s dominance over traditional battleship-dominant navies in the Second World War nearly twenty years later.
How Woodrow Wilson Persecuted Hutterites Who Refused to Support His War
Woodrow Wilson had no qualms about jailing people he disagreed with. His persecution of the Hutterites can attest to that.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Campaigning for President of the United States in September 1912, “progressive” icon Woodrow Wilson said something that would gladden the heart of any libertarian:
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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