Omnibus Transportation Bill: Hearings, Jan. 24-27, 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 |
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agencies amended amount apply authority average BEALL BOREN BULWINKLE cents CHAIRMAN charges Chicago class I railroads COLE Commissioner SPLAWN Committee of Six commodities common carriers competition Congress consolidation coordination Corporation cost district economic effect El Paso employees facilities Federal first-class rates FLETCHER forms of transportation freight rates Government GRAY HALLECK handled HARRISON haul hearing highway HINSHAW increase industry Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission interterritorial investment jurisdiction KERR Lea bill LEDWITH legislation lines MAPES MARTIN matter MCGRANERY mileage miles Motor Carrier Act motor carriers MURRAY official territory operating percent present President question rail carriers railroads railway Rate Division rate-making reasonable recommendations Reconstruction Finance Corporation regulation Reorganization Court revenue roads shippers situation South southern statement taxes territory rates thereof tion ton-miles traffic trucks trustees United waterways WOLVERTON zone
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Page 671 - ... rights and liabilities of creditors, and of all persons with respect to the property of the debtor and the jurisdiction of appellate courts shall be the same as if a voluntary .petition for adjudication had been filed and a decree of adjudication had been entered on the day when the debtor's petition or answer was filed...
Page 631 - ... of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation of the provisions of this act...
Page 374 - Authority shall consider the following, among other things, as being in the public interest, and in accordance with the public convenience and necessity— (a) The encouragement and development of an air transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense...
Page 608 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing, finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 685 - Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems.
Page 632 - ... six months from the time notice in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant of disallowance of the claim, or any part or parts thereof, specified in the notice.
Page 110 - ... transportation" shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported...
Page 116 - ... imply that a, rate properly so described must (1) cover and more than cover' the extra or additional expenses incurred in handling the traffic to which it applies; (2) be no lower than necessary to meet existing competition; (3) not be so low as to threaten the extinction of legitimate competition by water carriers; and (4) not impose an undue burden on other traffic or jeopardize the appropriate return on the value of carrier property generally, as contemplated in section 15a of the act.
Page 693 - It shall be unlawful for any person, except as provided in paragraph (2), to enter into any transaction within the scope of subparagraph (a) thereof, or to accomplish or effectuate, or to participate in accomplishing or effectuating, the control or management in a common interest of any two or more carriers...