 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1888 - 424 Seiten
...been lost, the consolidated companies caring nothing for records, except such as prove their equal right to the property absorbed. But of greater significance...vest-pocket book-keeping and a conveniently failing memory. Satisfactory and conclusive information on the cost of railways in the United States can not be obtained.... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1888 - 1108 Seiten
...companies caring nothing for records, except such as prove their equal right to the property absorbed. Bat of greater significance is the fact that, in many...to say, the investigation demanded by Congress is pashed back into the realm of vest-pocket book-keeping and a conveniently failing memory. Satisfactory... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1903 - 478 Seiten
...actual outlay for construction, conclusive results are impossible. In his first annual report he said : "The papers giving evidence respecting these facts...vest-pocket bookkeeping and a conveniently failing memory." One phase of the difficulty suggested in the foregoing may be illustrated by the fact that in its first... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1903 - 514 Seiten
...actual outlay for construction, conclusive results are impossible. In his first annual report he said: "The papers giving evidence respecting these facts...vest-pocket bookkeeping and a conveniently failing memory." One phase of the difficulty suggested in the foregoing may be illustrated by the fact that in its first... | |
 | 1911 - 436 Seiten
...companies may have been lost, the consolidated companies caring nothing for records except such as proved their right to the property absorbed. But of greater...the books of railway corporations do not go beyond settlement with the construction companies. . . . Moreover, since the inception of the railway system... | |
 | 1944 - 396 Seiten
...been lost, the consolidated companies caring nothing for records, except such as prove their equal right to the property absorbed. But of greater significance...vest-pocket bookkeeping and a conveniently failing memory. From the very outset of Mr. Adams' work for the commission his statistical reports were full and complete,... | |
 | Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics - 1915 - 964 Seiten
...companies may have been lost, the consolidated companies caring nothing for records except such as proved their right to the property absorbed. But of greater...the books of railway corporations do not go beyond settlement with the construction companies. . . . Moreover, since the inception of the railway system... | |
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... their right to the property absorbed. But of greater significance is the fact that in many instances the books of railway corporations do not go beyond settlements with construction companies; that is to say the investigation demanded by Congress... 