Railroad Car Shortage: Hearings on S.Res. 44 and S.Res. 47 |
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22 July AITCHISON American Railroads average Baltimore & Ohio boxcars Burlington & Quincy bushels car builders Car Service Division car shortage car supply carriers Chairman coal cars Colonel Johnson committee corn country elevators crop December Defense Transportation diem district eastern ELMER ELMER W empty cars equipment export flour freight cars going Grain Belt grain products hopper cars increase industry Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission Island & Pacific J. M. JOHNSON January July 22 Kans KENDALL loading MAHONEY mills mines months move movement November number of cars October Office of Defense operating ownership percent period rail refrigerator cars requirements Rock Island Santa Fe SCHEUNEMANN Senator BUTLER Senator CAPEHART Senator MYERS Senator REED Senator REVERCOMB Senator WHERRY Sept ship shipments shippers situation SPERRY statement steel territory tons traffic unloading week West Virginia western lines western roads wheat
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Page 573 - ... best promote the service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people, upon such terms of compensation as between the carriers as they may agree upon, or, in the event of their disagreement, as the Commission may after subsequent hearing find to be just and...
Page 411 - ... the Commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, but upon reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the lawfulness of such rate...
Page 1 - TO MAKE A FULL AND COMPLETE STUDY AND INVESTIGATION WITH RESPECT TO THE CONCENTRATION OF ECONOMIC POWER IN, AND FINANCIAL CONTROL OVER, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS AND SERVICES MONOGRAPH No.
Page 173 - Commission; (b) to make such just and reasonable directions with respect to car service without regard to the ownership as between carriers of locomotives, cars, and other vehicles, during such emergency as in its opinion will best promote the service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people...
Page 166 - Now THEREFORE, By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy...
Page 164 - Management with respect to the state of war and to assure maximum utilization of the domestic transportation facilities of the Nation for the successful prosecution of the war, it is hereby ordered: 1.
Page 411 - To suspend the operation of any or all rules, regulations, or practices then established with respect to car service for such time as may be determined by the commission...
Page 164 - Committee shall serve as such without compensation but shall be entitled to actual and necessary transportation, subsistence and other expenses incidental to performance of their duties.
Page 84 - It shall be the duty of every carrier by railroad subject to this Act to furnish safe and adequate car service and to establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable rules, regulations, and practices with respect to car service...
Page 97 - At a General Session of the Interstate Commerce Commission, held at its office In Washington, DC, on the 19th day of May AD 1914.