War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Bill, 1944, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ... , 78-1 on H.R. 23461943 - 256 pages |
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24-inch pipe line amount appropriation ARCHBOLD Atlantic seaboard barges and tugs barrels a day barrels per day Bayou Teche bill BUCKMAN Budget Bureau BUSSCHE Canal Authority CANAL Senator capacity Chairman Chief of Engineers Colonel GOETHALS committee completed Congress construction cost critical materials Defense Department east coast Elmer Thomas estimate facilities feet figures flood control Florida barge canal Florida Canal funds gasoline going Gulf Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Gulf of Mexico hearings horsepower inland waterways intracoastal canal Intracoastal Waterway manpower miles Navy Norris City operation PARTEN Petroleum Administration petroleum products Port power equipment Production Board question railroads record REYBOLD rivers and harbors route Senator BRIDGES Senator CHAVEZ Senator LODGE Senator MALONEY Senator MAYBANK Senator O'MAHONEY Senator OVERTON Senator PEPPER Senator THOMAS ship canal statement steel subcommittee SUMMERALL supply tankers Texas tion tons tugboats UNITED STATES SENATE War Production Board wooden barges
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Page 119 - ... foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers; to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices; to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions; — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving...
Page 121 - From and after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to transport from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect...
Page 120 - Board to investigate — (1) The relative economy and fitness of carriers by railroad, motor carriers, and water carriers for transportation service, or any particular classes or descriptions thereof, with the view of determining the service for which each type of carrier is especially fitted or unfitted; the methods by which each type can and should be developed so that there may be provided a national transportation system adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the...
Page 157 - As a condition of its approval, under this paragraph (2), of any transaction involving a carrier or carriers by railroad subject to the provisions of this part, the Commission shall require a fair and equitable arrangement to protect the interests of the railroad employees affected. In its order of approval the Commission shall include terms and conditions providing that during the period of four years from the effective date of such order such transaction will not result in employees of the carrier...
Page 120 - Service and of the national defense ; (2) the extent to which right-of-way or other transportation facilities and special services have been or are provided from public funds for the use, within the territorial limits of the continental United States, of each of the three types of carriers without adequate compensation, direct or indirect, therefor, and the extent to which such carriers have been or are aided by donations of public property, payments from public funds in excess of adequate compensation...
Page 229 - To promote the national defense and to promptly facilitate and protect the transport of materials and supplies...
Page 121 - States," approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and any amendment thereof. From and after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to transport from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under...
Page 129 - petroleum industry" means the production, refining, treating, storage, shipment, receipt, or distribution within the United States, its territories and possessions, of petroleum, exclusive of: (1 ) the transportation of petroleum, (2) the transmission of natural gas from the point of its entry into gas transmission lines from field gathering lines, and (3) the distribution of natural gas. c. The term "transportation" means transportation as defined in US Code, Title 49, section 1 (3) (a), and in...
Page 108 - A flowing stream; yes. Senator THOMAS. Does that complete your presentation ? Senator OVERTON. Yes, Senator. CORPS OF ENGINEERS FLORIDA BARGE CANAL STATEMENT OF HON. W. LEE O'DANIEL, A UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS IMPORTANCE TO NATION OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS Senator O'DANIEL. I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to appear before your committee to testify on behalf of the completion of the Florida Canal. I am a strong advocate of making available all of the transportation...
Page 1 - ... Appeals, Federal Building, Atlanta, Ga., Senator Smith W. Brookhart (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Brookhart (chairman of the subcommittee) and Locher. Present also : Hon. William J. Harris and Hon. Walter F. George, Senators from the State of Georgia. Senator BROOKHABT.