Problems of the Railroads: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session.... |
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... improvements in this era of rapid technological advances . With continuously low and inadequate earnings , however , a vicious circle is threatened . The trend of events goes from low earnings to technological lags , to insufficient ...
... improvements in this era of rapid technological advances . With continuously low and inadequate earnings , however , a vicious circle is threatened . The trend of events goes from low earnings to technological lags , to insufficient ...
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... improvements along these and other lines . The problem , of course , is to find the money . Then , in addition , there have been such developments as trailer - on - flatcar , or piggy - back operations . Railroads have tried to make ...
... improvements along these and other lines . The problem , of course , is to find the money . Then , in addition , there have been such developments as trailer - on - flatcar , or piggy - back operations . Railroads have tried to make ...
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... improvements . These needs have been accumulating until they are now in the urgent category . This substandard return on investment in an essential industry during a period of high business activity raises critical questions which , as ...
... improvements . These needs have been accumulating until they are now in the urgent category . This substandard return on investment in an essential industry during a period of high business activity raises critical questions which , as ...
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... improvements therein would be stifled if one company had the right to use all forms . Congress should move promptly to eliminate these restrictions , which are based upon an antiquated and unrealistic theory . Experience in other ...
... improvements therein would be stifled if one company had the right to use all forms . Congress should move promptly to eliminate these restrictions , which are based upon an antiquated and unrealistic theory . Experience in other ...
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... improvements All railroads have plans for plant improvements to take advantage of tech- nological advances of recent years which are awaiting only the funds to put them into operation . Many of those improvements would yield returns of ...
... improvements All railroads have plans for plant improvements to take advantage of tech- nological advances of recent years which are awaiting only the funds to put them into operation . Many of those improvements would yield returns of ...
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Page 372 - ... motor vehicles controlled and operated by a cooperative association as defined in the Agricultural Marketing Act...
Page 375 - May 5 by the Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission. That Bureau publishes what they call a monthly comment on transportation statistics.
Page 200 - Commission shall find that the continuance or acquisition of such ownership, lease, operation, control, or interest will not prevent such common carrier by water or vessel from being operated in the interest of the public and with advantage to the convenience and commerce of the people, and that it will not exclude, prevent, or reduce competition on the route by water under consideration...
Page 27 - Nothing in this part, except the provisions of section 204 relative to qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees and safety of operation or standards of equipment shall be construed to include * * * (6) motor vehicles used in carrying property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shell fish), or agricultural (including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof...
Page 371 - private carrier of property by motor vehicle" means any person not included in the terms "common carrier by motor vehicle" or "contract carrier by motor vehicle", who or which transports in interstate or foreign commerce by motor vehicle property of which such person is the owner, lessee, or bailee, when such transportation is for the purpose of sale, lease, rent, or bailment, or in furtherance of any commercial enterprise.
Page 650 - ... (c) In passing upon any proposed transaction under the provisions of this paragraph (2), the Commission shall give weight to the following considerations, among others: (1) The effect of the proposed transaction upon adequate transportation service to the public; (2) the effect upon the public interest of the inclusion, or failure to include, other railroads in the territory involved in the proposed transaction; (3) the total fixed charges resulting from the proposed transaction; and (4) the...
Page 771 - That nothing in this Act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments, or for charitable purposes, or to or from fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat...
Page 543 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed...
Page 199 - ... property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shell fish), or agricultural (including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof), if such motor vehicles are not used in carrying any other property, or passengers, for compensation...
Page 372 - It shall be the duty of every contract carrier by motor vehicle to file with the Commission, publish, and keep open for public inspection, in the form and manner prescribed by the Commission, schedules containing the actual rates or charges...