Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 272L.K. Strouse, 1948 - Interstate commerce |
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... percent in coaches and 4 percent in pullmans , with an adjustment of the short - haul coach fares to a scale basis , and cor- responding increases in the multiple fares , pursuant to our approval in Increased Passenger Fares , New Haven ...
... percent in coaches and 4 percent in pullmans , with an adjustment of the short - haul coach fares to a scale basis , and cor- responding increases in the multiple fares , pursuant to our approval in Increased Passenger Fares , New Haven ...
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... percent , and net income from $ 162.1 to $ 271.9 million , while their operating ratio will decline from 80.9 to 78.34 percent . Based on 1948 operations , they estimate that the in- creases in fares here sought would yield about ...
... percent , and net income from $ 162.1 to $ 271.9 million , while their operating ratio will decline from 80.9 to 78.34 percent . Based on 1948 operations , they estimate that the in- creases in fares here sought would yield about ...
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... percent and their one - way basic fares in sleeping and parlor cars by 14.3 percent , except The New York , New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company which seeks authority to increase its one - way basic fares in coaches by 4.3 per- cent ...
... percent and their one - way basic fares in sleeping and parlor cars by 14.3 percent , except The New York , New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company which seeks authority to increase its one - way basic fares in coaches by 4.3 per- cent ...
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... percent of first class , and on the plasterboard list , 22.5 percent of first class . In numerous instances the rates on plaster and plasterboard are considerably higher than 20 or 22.5 percent of first class . For example , the rate on ...
... percent of first class , and on the plasterboard list , 22.5 percent of first class . In numerous instances the rates on plaster and plasterboard are considerably higher than 20 or 22.5 percent of first class . For example , the rate on ...
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... percent of first class , and most of them apply from western New York origins . Many of the rates on plaster are the ... percent of first class to a high of 38.3 percent of first class . Illus- trative of this situation are the following ...
... percent of first class , and most of them apply from western New York origins . Many of the rates on plaster are the ... percent of first class to a high of 38.3 percent of first class . Illus- trative of this situation are the following ...
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Page 133 - ... to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices...
Page 341 - Agency is the relationship which results from the manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act on his behalf and subject to his control, and consent by the other so to act.
Page 602 - Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing, finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 133 - ... the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service ; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 133 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed ; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient...
Page 501 - ... any rebate or other device by which two shippers, shipping over the same line, the same distance, under the same circumstances of carriage, are compelled to pay different prices therefor; and we there held that the phrase "under substantially similar circumstances and conditions...
Page 492 - When delivery of a car consigned or ordered to an industrial interchange track or to other than public delivery track can not be made on account of the inability of the consignee to receive it or because of any other condition attributable to the consignee...
Page 620 - Commission, after full hearing, finds that any such rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate commerce on the other hand...
Page 501 - That competition is one of the most obvious and effective circumstances that make the conditions under which a long and short haul is performed substantially dissimilar, and as such must have been in the contemplation of Congress in the passage of the act to regulate commerce, has been held by many of the Circuit Courts.
Page 76 - If any tariff or schedule canceling any through route or joint rate, fare, charge, or classification, without the consent of all carriers parties thereto or authorization by the Commission, is suspended by the Commission for investigation, the burden of proof shall be upon the carrier or carriers proposing such cancellation to show that it is consistent with the public interest, without regard to the provisions of paragraph (4) of section 15.