Subject to all valid existing rights, there is hereby reserved for the use of the Alaska Road Commission, in connection with the construction, operation and maintenance of the Palmer-Richardson Highway, a right-of-way 200 feet wide.

The Director of the Office of Defense Transportation is directed to take immediate possession of all real and personal property, franchises, rights and other assets, tangible and intangible, of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad Company.

This waste could be curtailed to the advantage of the individual motorist, and likewise to the advantage of the country, if the speed of all motor vehicles were limited to a maximum of forty miles per hour.

I would say if they can come here and have a good time, and go away without using up too much gas, and without 'discombobolating' Washington, it would be all right.

I hereby establish the following Executive order for the Canal Zone to become effective March 1, 1932, regulating the size, weight, tire sizes, and speeds of trucks or other heavy vehicles or equipment using the public highways of the Canal Zone

I SHALL BE OBLIGED if you will present my cordial greetings to the annual convention of the American Road Builders Association.

It will be remembered that the carriers have now organized the Railway Credit Corporation on the plan provided between them and the Interstate Commerce Commission for assisting railways with deficient earnings from the special income authorized by the Commission.

The situation of the railways...is one of the, if not the greatest, economic problems that we have confronting us.

The uncertainties and the delays of nearly 10 years have seriously retarded development of the railways--have prevented their desirable growth in many directions, and have diminished their ability to compete with other forms of transportation.

Such questions as electrification, the linking up of different railroads, the development of larger terminals, and many offer major improvements have been retarded because of uncertainty with respect to the position which different roads would occupy in the permanent grouping.

During the past 10 years a possible grouping of the roads so as to carry out the law has been under constant discussion.

These uncertainties and delays over nearly 10 years have seriously retarded development of the railways and have prevented a desirable growth in many directions, and have diminished their ability to compete with other forms of transportation.

All nations are looking forward to the day of extensive, regular, and reasonably safe intercontinental and interoceanic transportation by airplane and airship.

The nineteenth century was the railroad and steamboat age.

Not only transportation, but communication, is necessary to commercial interchanged.

I hesitate to occupy your time in discussing an old method of transporting goods when you have before your eyes the newest one invented.

The said line from Rolla to and across Little Piney be first completed, and as soon as possible.

The public safety does require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Missouri be repaired, extended, and completed.