Excerpt from 79th Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission: Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1965 The intervening half decade thus has been of decisive historical sig nificance to our national transportation system, particularly that por tion of it regulated by Government. This-brief period in regulated transportation's 80 years of activity has provided valuable indicators of the system's health, rate of development, and state of readiness to meet America's commercial, defense, and social needs of the future. Happily, the indicators have been heartening. In our 78th Annual Report, submitted 1 year ago, we observed that the 1960's appeared to be truly a time of impressive growth, steadily improved health, and ex citing potential for our national transportation system. The further gains made by our transportation system during the ensuing year have served to strengthen and confirm our conviction that for America's regulated carriers and their users, this is an era bright with challenge and promise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.