Retirement System for Interstate Carriers' Employees: Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6956, a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Establish a Retirement System for Employees of Carriers Subject to the Interstate Commerce Act", and for Other Purposes, Approved August 29, 1935. May 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, and 21, 1937

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Page 17 - employer" shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the...
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Page 8 - For such purpose such obligations may be acquired (1) on original issue at par, or (2) by purchase of outstanding obligations at the market price. The purposes for which obligations of the United States may be issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, are hereby extended to authorize the issuance at par of special obligations exclusively to the Trust Fund.
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Page 1 - ... located in the United States; and an individual shall be deemed to be in the service of such a general committee only if...
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Page 9 - Board and shall have authority to recommend to the Board such changes in actuarial methods as they may deem necessary. The compensation of the members of the committee of actuaries, exclusive of the member designated by the Secretary, shall be fixed by the Board on a per-diem basis.
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