Antitrust Problems of the Space Satellite Communications System: Hearings...87-2 |
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... Bell System , by virtue of the 1953 rate increase was deriving a return from interstate telephone service in excess of 6.5 percent . The antitrust Subcommittee reached the conclusion that the FCC- has neglected in the 24 years of its ...
... Bell System , by virtue of the 1953 rate increase was deriving a return from interstate telephone service in excess of 6.5 percent . The antitrust Subcommittee reached the conclusion that the FCC- has neglected in the 24 years of its ...
Page 195
... Bell System would demand that it have this " due process " ( appealed to and reviewed by the courts ) before it would accept a rate order from the FCC which , in the Bell System's opinion , would reduce rates and earnings below a ...
... Bell System would demand that it have this " due process " ( appealed to and reviewed by the courts ) before it would accept a rate order from the FCC which , in the Bell System's opinion , would reduce rates and earnings below a ...
Page 197
... Bell System is to foster and retain every possible protection for its private ownership , service , rates , financing , labor relations , and every other element of its business which it regards as desirable and conducive to its own ...
... Bell System is to foster and retain every possible protection for its private ownership , service , rates , financing , labor relations , and every other element of its business which it regards as desirable and conducive to its own ...
Page 198
... Bell System to influence not one but a group of government agencies and departments to take extraordinary measures to advance Bell System interests . Here I am referring to the well - planned cam- paign involving the heads of the ...
... Bell System to influence not one but a group of government agencies and departments to take extraordinary measures to advance Bell System interests . Here I am referring to the well - planned cam- paign involving the heads of the ...
Page 199
... Bell System is now a formidable economic and political power . It would take the public revenues , including Federal subsidies and grants - in - aid , of 32 of our poorest States or those of the 5 richest States to equal the Bell System's ...
... Bell System is now a formidable economic and political power . It would take the public revenues , including Federal subsidies and grants - in - aid , of 32 of our poorest States or those of the 5 richest States to equal the Bell System's ...
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administration agencies antitrust AT&T authorized BARR basis Bell System bill cable capital Chairman channels CHUMBRIS Commissioner committee Common Carrier Bureau Communications Act communications common carriers communications satellite system companies competition Congress cost countries CRAVEN directors DRYDEN effect equipment ESTES KEFAUVER facilities FARLEY FCC's Federal Communications Commission FENSTERWALD foreign going Government ground stations hearings HYDE interstate earnings investment KATZENBACH LOEVINGER marginal cost matter ment million MINOW munications NASA negotiations oversea ownership participation percent President private line private monopoly problem proposed public interest PUCKETT question radio RAITT rate base rate of return reasonable regulation regulatory research and development revenues SARNOFF satellite corporation SCHWARTZ Senator CARROLL Senator KEFAUVER space communications staff statement Subcommittee Syncom tariff telegraph telephone rates teletypewriter terminal stations tion toll rates U.S. Senate United WELSH Western Electric Western Union
Popular passages
Page 160 - 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 203 - ... section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 210 - ... contract" means any actual or proposed contract, agreement, understanding, or other arrangement, and includes any assignment, substitution of parties, or subcontract executed or entered into thereunder; and (3) the term "made", when used in relation to any invention, means the conception or first actual reduction to practice of such invention.
Page 505 - ... for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day in which such employee is required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said work without receiving compensation computed in accordance with this article, and all penalties thus imposed shall be withheld for the use and benefit of the Government...
Page 505 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract in the employ of the contractor or any subcontractor contracting for any part of said work contemplated shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day upon such work...
Page 201 - United states to establish, in conjunction and in cooperation with other countries, as expeditiously as practicable a commercial communications satellite system, as part of an improved global communications network, which will be responsive to public needs and national objectives, which will serve the communication needs of the United States and other countries, and which will contribute to world peace and understanding.
Page 616 - 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.
Page 216 - Declaration of policy and purpose SEC. 102. (a) The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States to establish, in conjunction and in cooperation with other countries, as expeditiously as practicable a commercial communications satellite system, as part of an improved global communications network...
Page 103 - Outer space and celestial bodies are free for exploration and use by all States in conformity with international law and are not subject to national appropriation; 2.
Page 201 - ... as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act...