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    The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.
    The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.
    The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.
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    The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.

    By United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.

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      The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation. - United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee

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      Title: The Rural Motor Express

      Highway Transport Commitee Council of National Defence, Bulletins No. 2

      Author: US Government

      Release Date: November 13, 2006 [EBook #19799]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS ***

      Produced by Jessica Gockley, Jason Isbell, Bruce Albrecht,

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber’s Note

      One obvious typographical error (poulation for population) was corrected, but the remainder of the text was left as originally printed.

      BULLETIN NO. 2

      MAY, 1918

      THE RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS

      TO CONSERVE FOODSTUFFS AND LABOR AND

      TO SUPPLY RURAL TRANSPORTATION

      HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

      COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE

      WASHINGTON, D. C.

      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

      COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

      HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE.

      WASHINGTON, D. C.

      THE RURAL MOTOR EXPRESS.

      The transportation burden on the railroads and highways of the country has been tremendously increased by

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