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In the latter part of the 1880s. And communities were being pressured to have better roads. Perhaps only going out into the suburbs. And we have places like cleveland and philadelphia that are installing brick roads. So there is a movement for a allweather road system, or at least in a limited sense, prior to the coming of the automobile, which really is about 1900, so 1905. Most american roads at the beginning of the 20th century, were mud holes during the wet season, and extremely dusty during...

At 10 30 eastern of the development of the electric rail system of lecture and American History tv primetime on friday. This labor day weekend, American History tv on cspan 3 has three days of programming. Saturday night, officer Oliver Rosales sharing his history about the National Farm workers association. Chavez was blowing this up. The movement of workers and the people at the bottom of society were becoming engaged and fighting for their rights and working conditions but also mobilizing for...

Open the seas back up for the british. In particular, whats going to be the most precious thing . Where does this war have to be decided ultimately. On the ground. So what do you need . People. Troops. Thats sort of a long way to getting back to saying about mobilization. Payton c. March, another unsung hero of world war i because march is the guy who is going to organize the draft. Youre talking about an army of i think the United States army at the beginning before world war begins is less tha...

In fact, if the automobile had been invented perhaps 20, 25 years before, and if we had the triumph of the good roads movement about the same time, perhaps we would not have had the interurban era. Also, we can make a case too that the interurban is the transition between Steam Railroad less than car load freight and express and the coming of the motor truck. And in the near future, in fact, on thursday, i want to talk about trolley or interurban freight. To begin, lets keep in mind that the ame...

At 10 30 eastern of the development of the electric rail system of lecture and American History tv primetime on friday. This labor day weekend, American History tv on cspan 3 has three days of programming. Saturday night, officer Oliver Rosales sharing his history about the National Farm workers association. Chavez was blowing this up. The movement of workers and the people at the bottom of society were becoming engaged and fighting for their rights and working conditions but also mobilizing for...

This is potomac mills. Here we have atlanta. Not only do we see cars parked off the street everywhere, we also see major interstate highways accommodating cars at extraordinary expense. So this is like taking your swing line stapler and 200page report and getting a sledgehammer to force that staple through. At least thats one way of possibly looking at this, right . Our assigned reading for today says to the contrary, this is something we accommodate. The automobile is something we accommodate b...

Do you think harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance. Does that become part of the debt ceiling debate and should it . That ist should, but not what republicans have in mind as a ransom. Democrats are really adamant about it. Many feel they gave up the best opportunity. Remember, when unemployment has remained this high at seven percent when we have had this extent of longterm unemployment, we have always had extensionsion...

Trying to get them to lay off sanctions . You are stringing a bunch of things along. Let us see if we can have a question . That is a lot less than henry had. [laughter] i thought we were trying to get along. [laughter] how about i separate out the iran question from the Health Care Question . On the Health Care Question, i think i have answered several times this is a new iteration of it. Bottom line is that we are going to continue to work every single day to make sure that implementation of t...

Gentlemen, thank you for going through the numbers with us. Thank you for being with us here on cspan. It is friday. Beginning tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. On cspan 2, book tv, 48 hours of nonfiction books all weekend on book tv. Over the holidays, you will see a lot of prime time in 24hour periods of book tv. American history tv begins tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. On cspan 3. Those are a couple of options for you over the weekend. Happy holidays. Taking a look at some of our cspan 3,g today...

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