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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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he will that he can, so that Is settled. We must have larger power, because rates are going down, there is only one thing left to us, that is to have large units of power to pull the tonnage over our railways. That means something* We will have to have heavier rails, heavier bridges and longer sidetracks, and also new coaling facilities, higher coding stations and higher water tanks, and then when we come to ask for all these things, the president of the railway who has all the things before him that the different departments have asked for, will say, "I have got so muoh money to give out, and they have already asked for twice as much as I have", and so he will have to cut everybody's request down. Everybody does not know what the president has to deal with, they think he has got the money down in his trousers pockets, and all he has to do is to dig down and get it, but he has not. He has got to do the best he can. And the head of each department, in railroad parlance, "feels sore", because he does not get what he wants. In order to get the maximum result from the big locomotive it is up to the young men of today who belong to the student body to see what kind of material can be used by certain alloys, to see what can be done to increase the strength and reduce the weight of materials used in frames and machineries, and to put the weight saved into the boiler', whioh is the foundation of the whole machine, the thing that generates the power, and if you can generate
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