Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Volume 48U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 With appendices. |
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1933 Annual Report acceptance of concessions Alabama G. S. R. Alton amended appeal applications approved Assn Atchison Atlantic Coast Line authorized Baltimore & O. R. Bros bureau carriers cars certificates charging the acceptance charging the granting Chicago & N. W. class I steam Class Rates Coal Commission's order common carriers Corp Corporation County docket eastern district employees equipment Federal filed freight granting of concessions guilty entered history see 1933 Illinois Central imposed indictment charging Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission intrastate rates investigations issued Jersey June locomotives Louis March 29 miles of road Nolle prosequi northern district number of persons October October 31 Ohio passenger pending Pennsylvania percent plea of guilty prior case history R. R. Co rail railway operating Reconstruction Finance Corporation revenue S. F. Ry shippers Southern Pacific Co steam railways Supp tariff Texas tion Total traffic United Valley York Central
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Page 11 - Commission where applicable to common carriers engaged in wire or radio communication or radio transmission of energy ; in the Federal Reserve Board where applicable to banks, banking associations, and trust companies ; and in the Federal Trade Commission...
Page 10 - AN ACT To provide for the regulation of interstate and foreign communication by wire or radio, and for other purposes.
Page 142 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto...
Page 38 - It shall be lawful for two or more carriers by railroad, subject to this Act, to consolidate their properties or any part thereof, into one corporation for the ownership, management, and operation...
Page 13 - ... handling of property transported by railroad, and any receiver, trustee, or other individual or body, judicial or otherwise, when in the possession of the property or operating all or any part of the business of any such employer: Provided, however, That the term "employer...
Page 13 - ... general steamrailroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power. The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby authorized and directed upon request of the Board, or upon complaint of any party interested, to determine after hearing whether any line operated by electric power falls within the terms of this proviso. The term "employer...
Page 27 - Every such common carrier having any such transactions or making any such purchases shall within thirty days after making the same file with the Interstate Commerce Commission a full and detailed statement of the transaction showing the manner of the competitive bidding...
Page 52 - Its decision, of course, must have "warrant in the record" and a reasonable basis in the law. But "the judicial function is exhausted when there is found to be a rational basis for the conclusions approved by the administrative body.
Page 25 - With a view to increasing employment quickly (while reasonably securing any loans made by the United States) the President is authorized and empowered, through the Administrator or through such other agencies as he may designate or create, (1) to construct, finance, or aid in the construction or financing of any public-works project included in the program prepared pursuant to section 202...
Page 13 - carrier" includes any express company, sleeping-car company, carrier by railroad, subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and any company which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by or under common control with any carrier by railroad and which operates any equipment or facilities or performs any service (other than trucking service) in connection with the transportation, receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported...