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    Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense
    Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense
    Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense
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    Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense

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      Title: Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highway Transport Committee Council of National Defence

      Highway Transport Commitee, Council of National Defence, Bulletin 4

      Author: US Government

      Release Date: November 11, 2006 [EBook #19758]

      Language: English

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      OCTOBER 15, 1918

      BULLETIN NO. 4

      ADDRESS BY

      HONORABLE WILLIAM C. REDFIELD

      SECRETARY OF COMMERCE

      AT CONFERENCE OF REGIONAL CHAIRMEN

      OF THE HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

      COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE

      WASHINGTON, D.C.

      SEPTEMBER 19, 1918

      RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

      The Council of National Defense approves the widest possible use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests the State Councils of Defense and other State authorities to take all necessary steps to facilitate such means of transportation, removing any regulations that tend to restrict and discourage such use.

      WASHINGTON

      GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

      1918

      Recognizing the national value of our highways in relation to, and properly coordinated with, other existing transportation mediums, and more particularly the necessity for their immediate development that they might carry their share of the war burden, the Highways Transport Committee was appointed by, and forms a part of, the Council of National Defense.

      The object of the committee is to increase and render more effective all transportation

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