Omnibus Transportation Bill: Hearings, Jan. 24-27, 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 |
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... Gray . Mr. WOLVERTON . Doctor , I would like to ask two or three specific questions and then a few more of a general character . The first relates to the answer that you gave to a question this morn- ing . Your answer indicated that ...
... Gray . Mr. WOLVERTON . Doctor , I would like to ask two or three specific questions and then a few more of a general character . The first relates to the answer that you gave to a question this morn- ing . Your answer indicated that ...
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... Gray was a member of the group of six appointed by the President . He is with us this morning and we will be glad to hear from him . STATEMENT OF CARL R. GRAY , VICE CHAIRMAN , BOARD OF DIRECTORS , UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO ...
... Gray was a member of the group of six appointed by the President . He is with us this morning and we will be glad to hear from him . STATEMENT OF CARL R. GRAY , VICE CHAIRMAN , BOARD OF DIRECTORS , UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO ...
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... Gray , I did not catch what the President said he wanted you to do . Mr. GRAY . He wanted us to make a study of the transportation situation , Major , as contrasted with only a consideration of the rail- road side of that transportation ...
... Gray , I did not catch what the President said he wanted you to do . Mr. GRAY . He wanted us to make a study of the transportation situation , Major , as contrasted with only a consideration of the rail- road side of that transportation ...
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... Gray , before you get away from that , you said as to those first four titles that the Interstate Commerce Com- misison should have jurisdiction . Mr. GRAY . Yes , sir . Mr. BULWINKLE . Who has jurisdiction over the other titles and ...
... Gray , before you get away from that , you said as to those first four titles that the Interstate Commerce Com- misison should have jurisdiction . Mr. GRAY . Yes , sir . Mr. BULWINKLE . Who has jurisdiction over the other titles and ...
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... Gray , but they pay a personal- property tax . Mr. GRAY . Major , that is included in that comparison . We pay a property tax too on our equipment . We do not include those in these figures . They pay a property tax on their equipment ...
... Gray , but they pay a personal- property tax . Mr. GRAY . Major , that is included in that comparison . We pay a property tax too on our equipment . We do not include those in these figures . They pay a property tax on their equipment ...
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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...