Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on CommerceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - Legislative hearings |
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Administration agency airports Alaska aviation BEGGS Bethel Board Braman cathodic protection CATV CHAIRMAN CHERINGTON City Commerce Commission committee common carriers concerned Congress construction Corporation for Public Department of Transportation Director educational television facilities Federal Federal Railroad Administration feel fish fisheries funds going Government Governor VOLPE hearing highway hope HYDE hydrostatic test industry interest Japanese Kuskokwim Kuskokwim River legislation matter MEACHAM ment million operation percent person pipe pipeline system President pressure problem proposed Public Broadcasting public television question radio railroad record regulations requirements responsibility REX LEE safety Secretary of Transportation Senator CANNON Senator COTTON Senator GRAVEL Senator HANSEN Senator HARTKE Senator MAGNUSON Senator Moss Senator PASTORE served SHAFFER STANS statement Subpart television stations Thank things tion U.S. Senate WARREN G Washington weld WHITMAN yield strength
Popular passages
Page 358 - Lear. Howl, howl, howl, howl ! — O ! you are men of stones ; Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever. — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
Page 143 - A public utility is entitled to such rates as will permit it to earn a return on the value of the property which it employs for the convenience of the public equal to that generally being made at the same time and in the same general part of the country on investments in other business undertakings which are attended by corresponding risks and uncertainties...
Page 250 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise THEIR CONTROL WITH A WHOLESOME DISCRETION, THE REMEDY IS NOT TO TAKE IT FROM THEM, BUT TO INFORM THEIR DISCRETION BY EDUCATION.
Page 115 - Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest...
Page 127 - coast line" means the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters...
Page 143 - From the investor or company point of view it is important that there be enough revenue not only for operating expenses but also for the capital costs of the business. These include service on the debt and dividends on the stock.
Page 358 - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 226 - For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 188 - Under the statutory standard of "just and reasonable" it is the result reached not the method employed which is controlling. ... It is not theory but the impact of the rate order which counts. If the total effect of the rate order cannot be said to be unjust and unreasonable, judicial inquiry under the Act is at an end.
Page 143 - By that standard the return to the equity owner should be commensurate with returns on investments in other enterprises having corresponding risks. That return, moreover, should be sufficient to assure confidence in the financial integrity of the enterprise, so as to maintain its credit and to attract capital.