Show RAILROADS AND BUSINESS Not many people have any conception of the magnitude magnitude magnitude mag mag- of the railroad oad business in the United States According to the Record-Herald Record the railroads of the country will this year spend almost or quite 1000 on track and cars It gives as the cost of rails alone Then freight cars are ordered passenger cars and locomotives To the business of the country the railroads have I become as s much the vital fluid as blood is in an ani ani- mal On On the thee other hand the need of these betterments better better- betterments ments shows how by leaps and bounds the business of the country is increasing The steel mills will have to manufacture tons of rails to meet the present call The rest of the world is growing small by comparison with the United States |