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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... proposal ; because these Senators will have to pass judgment upon the matter , and must have the information before them . Senator JOHNSON of Colorado . I should like to have Mr. Hastings answer this in his own way : Please tell us the ...
... proposal ; because these Senators will have to pass judgment upon the matter , and must have the information before them . Senator JOHNSON of Colorado . I should like to have Mr. Hastings answer this in his own way : Please tell us the ...
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... proposal , and feel assured that it is worthy of serious study and earnest consideration , and have no doubt that should you introduce such a resolution and it be passed , the Commission would be glad to do all it can to aid in the ...
... proposal , and feel assured that it is worthy of serious study and earnest consideration , and have no doubt that should you introduce such a resolution and it be passed , the Commission would be glad to do all it can to aid in the ...
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... proposed by Mr. John A. Hastings for what he terms the " postalization " of railroad passenger fares . A copy of that letter is enclosed herewith . You will note that it was sug- gested at the end of this letter that an investigation of ...
... proposed by Mr. John A. Hastings for what he terms the " postalization " of railroad passenger fares . A copy of that letter is enclosed herewith . You will note that it was sug- gested at the end of this letter that an investigation of ...
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... proposed and the results of any studies I may have made relative thereto . Since then I have from time to time conferred with Mr. Hastings , the author of the plan , and it has also been considered by members of my staff . The plan is ...
... proposed and the results of any studies I may have made relative thereto . Since then I have from time to time conferred with Mr. Hastings , the author of the plan , and it has also been considered by members of my staff . The plan is ...
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... proposed plan would , of course , be revolutionary . It would be most unwise , even if the plan should superficially appeal , to embark upon it without most careful consideration of its probable effects upon the railroads and upon the ...
... proposed plan would , of course , be revolutionary . It would be most unwise , even if the plan should superficially appeal , to embark upon it without most careful consideration of its probable effects upon the railroads and upon the ...
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Page 7 - The Corporation shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails for its official business in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government, and shall determine its necessary expenditures under this Act and the manner in which they shall be incurred, allowed, and paid, without regard to the provisions of any other law governing the expenditure of public funds.
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...
Page 8 - That the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated...
Page 7 - Payment for the $825,000,000 balance of such capital stock shall be subject to call at any time in whole or in part by the Board of Directors of the Bank.
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...
Page 7 - Act, shall have succession, until dissolved in accordance with this or any other Act of Congress ; shall have power to sue and be sued in any court, to adopt and use a corporate seal, to make contracts...
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...