Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 200L.K. Strouse, 1934 - Interstate commerce |
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... average distance from group 11 is 819 miles . From Spur 10 the distance is 776 miles and the average distance from group 14 is 785 miles . On the basis of 27.4 tons per car , the average loading of lumber on the Chicago & North Western ...
... average distance from group 11 is 819 miles . From Spur 10 the distance is 776 miles and the average distance from group 14 is 785 miles . On the basis of 27.4 tons per car , the average loading of lumber on the Chicago & North Western ...
Page 30
... average loading of the shipments in issue , the assailed rate yielded an average of $ 133.10 per car , or 17.06 cents per car - mile . Under the rate sought the earnings would have been $ 124.34 per car , or 16 cents per car - mile ...
... average loading of the shipments in issue , the assailed rate yielded an average of $ 133.10 per car , or 17.06 cents per car - mile . Under the rate sought the earnings would have been $ 124.34 per car , or 16 cents per car - mile ...
Page 63
... average maintained to destinations in official and southern terri- tories for similar distances . Complainant , to support claimed basis prior to December 3 , 1931 , shows , for example , that the average of the first - class rates ...
... average maintained to destinations in official and southern terri- tories for similar distances . Complainant , to support claimed basis prior to December 3 , 1931 , shows , for example , that the average of the first - class rates ...
Page 87
... average approximately the following per- centages of first class in southern , official , and southwestern terri ... averages approximately 12 per- cent on rough without specific suggestions as to dressed and carved . Certain Minnesota ...
... average approximately the following per- centages of first class in southern , official , and southwestern terri ... averages approximately 12 per- cent on rough without specific suggestions as to dressed and carved . Certain Minnesota ...
Page 89
... Average load , tons Rates , cents per Mills per Earnings ton - mile Cents per car- per car cwt . mile Rough ... Average loading , 21.30 tons . Higher of alternative minimum weights . Average loadings , 25.72 tons . The basis suggested by ...
... Average load , tons Rates , cents per Mills per Earnings ton - mile Cents per car- per car cwt . mile Rough ... Average loading , 21.30 tons . Higher of alternative minimum weights . Average loadings , 25.72 tons . The basis suggested by ...
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Alabama alleged assailed rates Atchison average awarded Baltimore & O. R. basis Bedford district bituminous coal Calif carloads carriers Chicago class rates class-rate classification Coal Creek COMMISSION DIVISION commodity rates competition complainant complaint filed defendants destinations district East Palestine established first-class rates Florida Fort Worth found unreasonable freight further hearing Glens Falls haul Illinois Indiana intermediate points Interstate Commerce Act Iowa Kansas City less-than-carload loading Louis Memphis miles MILLER BY DIVISION minimum Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri movement North Carolina official territory Ohio Oklahoma origin Pacific Pennsylvania percent Pittsburgh ports pounds present rates prior proposed rates rail Railroad Company Railway Company rates assailed rates charged rates prescribed reasonable rates respectively scale shipped shippers sought South South Dakota southern territory Southwest southwestern tariff Texas thereon tion traffic transportation trunk-line territory unduly prejudicial vegetables Virginia weight West West Memphis West Virginia western trunk-line York
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Page 499 - Territory, at the request of such commissioner or commission, and may institute any inquiry on its own motion in the same manner and to the same effect as though complaint had been made. No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.
Page 499 - That any person, firm, corporation, or association, or any mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society, or any body politic or municipal organization complaining of anything done or omitted to be done by any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act in contravention of the provisions thereof...
Page 267 - 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...
Page 571 - 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; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service ; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 267 - ... the need, in the public interest of adequate and efficient transportation service by such carriers at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable such carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 393 - Block. A length of track of defined limits, the use of which by trains is governed by block signals, cab signals, or both.
Page 467 - ... if a circuitous rail line or route is, because of such c,ircuity, granted authority to meet the charges of a more direct line or route to or from competitive points and to maintain higher charges to or from intermediate points on its line, the authority shall not include intermediate points as to which the haul of the petitioning line or route is not longer than that of the direct line or route between the competitive points...
Page 459 - Meat and Bone Scrap. If it bears a name descriptive of its kind, composition, or origin it must correspond thereto. (Adopted 1928— Amended 1936, 1938.) B. Feeding tankage is the residue from animal tissues exclusive of hoof, horn, manure, and stomach contents, except in such traces as might occur unavoidably in good factory...
Page 106 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, over irregular routes.
Page 571 - Neither the elimination of the group method of rate making, nor the substituted rule, suggests an intention to impair the Commission's authority over intrastate rates for the appropriate protection of interstate commerce. On the contrary, the substituted rule of rate making by its express terms emphasizes the carriers' need of adequate revenues. The Congress had provided authority to meet that need where inadequate intrastate rates caused unjust discrimination against interstate commerce. The Commission...