Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940

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Page 355 - ... unless and until, and then only to the extent that, upon application by the carrier, and after investigation by the Commission of the purposes and uses of the proposed issue and the proceeds thereof, or of the proposed assumption of obligation or liability in respect of the securities of any other person, natural or artificial, the Commission by order authorizes such issue or assumption.
Page 498 - An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Ssc.
Page 356 - Where a statute, or other document, enumerates several classes of persons or things, and immediately following and classed with such enumeration the clause embraces "other" persons or things — the word "other" will generally be read as "other such like...
Page 24 - Commission, to prevent continuance of such violation. "(11) For the proper protection and in furtherance of the plan for the consolidation of railway properties established pursuant to paragraph (3) and the regulation of interstate commerce in accordance therewith, the Commission is hereby authorized, upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, but after notice and hearing, to investigate and determine whether the holding by any person of stock or other share capital of any carrier...
Page 446 - Street, all as proposed to be widened, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, and (b) an easement over Franklin D.
Page 567 - The pro'perty of a corporation is doubtless a trust fund for the payment of its debts, in the, sense that when the corporation is lawfully dissolved and all its business wound up, or when it is insolvent, all its creditors are entitled in equit}t to have their debts paid out of the corporate property before any distribution thereof among the stockholders.
Page 212 - Wisconsin to run over its road, or any part thereof, outside of yard limits, any freight train of three cars or more with less than a full train crew consisting of five persons: one engineer, one fireman, one conductor, and two brakemen.
Page 172 - At a General Session of the Interstate Commerce Commission, held at its office in Washington, DC, on the 19th day of May AD 1914.
Page 241 - Every obligation, heretofore or hereafter incurred, whether or not any such provision is contained therein or made with respect thereto, shall be discharged upon payment, dollar for dollar, in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts.
Page 71 - That submission to any class of stockholders shall not be necessary if the Commission shall have found, and the judge shall have affirmed the finding...

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