Address

United States. Council of National Defense. HighwaProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at ConferenceAuthor: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee,Language: English, Class: HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications, Release Date: Nov 11, 2006

Editor's review

This is a speech delivered by Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane at a meeting, published by the U.S. Council of National Defense's Highway Transport Committee, a historical document in the transportation and communication category. Though brief, it preserves the policy context of American highway transport mobilization around the First World War and has documentary value for studying the history of transport management and government mobilization mechanisms. The text is in English, released by Project Gutenberg as a public-domain e-book, and is easy to search and cite. Its strength lies not in literary quality but in the original wording and period tone of an official speech. Read it in the context of wartime mobilization and highway construction; it is suitable as a historical fragment rather than a systematic standalone treatise.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Historically minded readers studying American transport history or wartime mobilization mechanisms
Writers of academic papers needing to cite the original text of an official speech
Collectors of documentary materials interested in early twentieth-century U.S. government documents

Not a good fit for

Readers seeking systematic transport theory or policy analysis
General readers preferring long-form narrative or literary speeches
Beginners unfamiliar with the English original who need a complete annotated translation

Reading tips

First learn the historical background of the speech and the committee's functions, then read the text.
Compare the speech with contemporaneous highway transport policy documents to understand its policy orientation.
Excerpt key statements and note their sources for later citation.
The text is short; read it in one sitting and write a 300-word summary of key points.

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Who is the author of this document?

The information indicates the speaker was then Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and the issuing body was the U.S. Council of National Defense's Highway Transport Committee. The text is a speech at that meeting; author attribution and institutional information should follow the original book.

Is it suitable as a primary source for a paper?

As a public-domain text of an official meeting speech, it can be used as a primary-source fragment, but it should be corroborated with other documents. When citing, note the issuing body, speaker, and edition source, and avoid isolated interpretation.

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Given its nature as a meeting speech, it is relatively short and suitable for quick reading and excerpting. Readers should not expect a systematic treatise but should view it as a policy statement made on a specific occasion.

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United States. Council of National Defense. Highwa Author

United States. Council of National Defense. Highwa is a collective attribution for a highway-related office under the United States Council of National Defense. Due to limited public information, its exact founding date, organizational history, and staffing cannot be described in detail. Judging from the five works listed in the library, this attribution focuses on road transport and the allocation of transport resources in wartime. Representative works include Address, 'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources, The Rural Motor Express, and Return-Loads Bureaus To Save Waste In Transportation. These texts are mostly practical reports or proposals, written directly for policy implementation, and concern ways to reduce transport waste and improve capacity through return loads, rural motor express services, and return-loads bureaus. They reflect the context of U.S. transport mobilization around World War I and the emphasis on road freight, offering historical value for understanding transport administration and logistics organization of the period.