Investigation of Feasibility and Desirability of Fixing Railroad Rates on the Basis of Zones: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 58, a Joint Resolution Providing for an Investigation of the Feasibility and Desirability of Fixing Railroad Rates on the Basis of Zones. June 16, 1939Considers (76) H.J. Res. 152, (76) H.R. 5579, (76) S.J. Res. 58. |
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... figure . Those are the figures regarding those who travel . If a system of this kind can be adopted I am sure the result will be a tremendous increase in the number of people who travel and the distances they travel . Senator BONE . Mr ...
... figure . Those are the figures regarding those who travel . If a system of this kind can be adopted I am sure the result will be a tremendous increase in the number of people who travel and the distances they travel . Senator BONE . Mr ...
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... figure — and these are the railroads ' figures , and not mine ; all we did was to break them down to the lowest common denominator : The cost of moving a seat in a coach was 0.332 cent- about one - third of a cent a mile . Senator ...
... figure — and these are the railroads ' figures , and not mine ; all we did was to break them down to the lowest common denominator : The cost of moving a seat in a coach was 0.332 cent- about one - third of a cent a mile . Senator ...
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... figure each one of them at one - third of a cent , then the three seats would cost 1 cent , of course . Mr. HASTINGS ... figures were taken from the Interstate Com- merce Commission's records , and have been checked by the Interstate ...
... figure each one of them at one - third of a cent , then the three seats would cost 1 cent , of course . Mr. HASTINGS ... figures were taken from the Interstate Com- merce Commission's records , and have been checked by the Interstate ...
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... figure it out . Mr. HASTINGS . It is impossible to figure out the complete cost . Senator JOHNSON of Colorado . All right ; then the answer is that it cannot be done ? Mr. HASTINGS . You cannot determine the complete cost . ( Thereupon ...
... figure it out . Mr. HASTINGS . It is impossible to figure out the complete cost . Senator JOHNSON of Colorado . All right ; then the answer is that it cannot be done ? Mr. HASTINGS . You cannot determine the complete cost . ( Thereupon ...
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... figures , that the expense of all passenger service in 1925 was $ 1,190,000,000 , as compared with $ 630,000,000 in 1933 , and that passenger - train miles were 582 , - 000,000 in 1925 as compared with 380,000,000 in 1933. Furthermore ...
... figures , that the expense of all passenger service in 1925 was $ 1,190,000,000 , as compared with $ 630,000,000 in 1933 , and that passenger - train miles were 582 , - 000,000 in 1925 as compared with 380,000,000 in 1933. Furthermore ...
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Page 1 - That the Interstate Commerce Commission is authorized and directed to make a thorough investigation of the rate structure of common carriers subject to the interstate commerce act, in order to determine to what extent and in what manner existing rates and charges may be unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, thereby imposing undue burdens, or giving undue...
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Page 6 - That every person or corporation, whether carrier or shipper, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent or person acting for or employed by a carrier or shipper, or other person, who shall knowingly violate or fail to observe any of the provisions of this act, or shall knowingly interfere with or impede the possession, use. operation or control of any railroad property, railroad or transportation system hitherto or hereafter taken over by the president, or shall knowingly violate any of the provisions...
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Page 7 - ... of the United States. In order to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make such payments when called, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and directed to allocate and make available to the Secretary of the Treasury the sum of $200,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary...
Page 51 - We are advised, although not officially, that a number of the carriers in official territory are willing, experimentally, to make reductions in passenger fares and to eliminate the Pullman surcharge, but that because of the attitude of some of the larger roads no action in that respect, either as to the passenger fare or the Pullman surcharge, has been taken.
Page 48 - An Act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes...
Page 7 - In order to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make such payments when called, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and directed to allocate and make available to the Secretary of the Treasury the sum of $200,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and for such purpose the amount of the notes, bonds, debentures, or other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered under section 9 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...