 Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems.  Railroads: Rates - Service - Management - Page 62by Homer Bews Vanderblue, Kenneth Farwell Burgess - 1923 - 486 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1923 - 700 pages
...Transportation Act of 1920 is avowedly a reversal of policy. It directed that the Interstate Commerce Commission "prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of...continental United States into a limited number of systems." The significance of the Act is that, for the first time Congress realized that it is possible, in pursuing... | |
 | 1927 - 844 pages
...future. When the Transportation Act of 1920 provided in ?eneral terms for " the consolFinance idation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems" and when, in accordance with that Act, the Interstate Commerce Commission proposed in 1921 a "tentative... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1967 - 1014 pages
...policy was expressed in the following language amending section 5 of the Interstate Commerce Act: (4) The Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare...continental United States into a limited number of systems.42 The policy adopted by the Congress in 1920 failed because of the means employed to effectuate... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1940 - 954 pages
...COMMISSION BY THE COMMISSION : By report in this proceeding dated December 9, 1929, 159 ICC 522, we adopted a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...United States into a limited number of systems, in which we assigned the properties of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Company and the New Orleans... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1933 - 1202 pages
...SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSION PORTEK, Chairman: On December 9, 1929, we adopted and published a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems, as required by section 5 (5) of the interstate commerce act. Consolidation of Railroads, 159 ICC 522.... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1938 - 870 pages
...1, 1936, which amended the original agreement also in certain other particulars. In the Commission's plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems, as modified upon presentation of the so-called 4-system plan for eastern territory, the properties... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1939 - 890 pages
...fact which unfits him for the trusteeship. Section 5 (2) of the Interstate Commerce Act contemplates the "consolidation of the railway properties of the...continental United States into a limited number of systems". By the provisions of that section, however, no consolidation or other form of railroad unification... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Railroads - 1919 - 268 pages
...Committee plan creates a Railway Transportation Board with five members appointed by the President: to prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the United States into not less than twenty, nor more than thirty -five systems; to make inquiry respecting... | |
 | Political science - 1919 - 626 pages
...Committee plan creates a Railway Transportation Board with five members appointed by the President : to prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the United States into not less than twenty, nor more than thirty -five systems; to make inquiry respecting... | |
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