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Some Unexplored Fields in American Railroad History1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Henrietta M. Larson
Henrietta M. Larson
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Extract

Constructing our railroads and operating them has been a work of magnificent and challenging proportions. Railroads presented our first great administrative task in business, and the task came upon us with a rapidity that in many respects overwhelmed us. It was pressed upon us by needs and opportunities on the side both of service and of profits.

It might well be asked whether any other country in the world, unless it be Russia since 1918, has had such a big administrative task in the field of the economic thrust upon it with so little preparation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1942 , pp. 69 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1942

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2 After this paper was written, a new book on Vanderbilt was published: Lane, Wheaton J., Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of the Steam AgeGoogle Scholar. From the point of view of business history, this is the best—though not wholly satisfactory—book on Vanderbilt.