...may be termed a rule of rate making, indicating certain factors which, among others, the Commission, in the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates, must take into consideration. The bill provides (sec. 206) for the return to carriers of amounts which...

...Interstate Commerce Act, as added by section 422 of the Transportation Act. That section provides : "(2) In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each...

...would not meet the test of reasonableness found in section 15a of the act. That section provides that, in the exercise of its power to prescribe just and...carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed. Even if all of the traffic under consideration should be diverted from Shelby because of the proposed...

...(2) of the Interstate Commerce Act, which provides that in prescribing just and reasonable rates we "shall give due consideration, among other factors,...carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed." The evidence is persuasive that a less-than-carload rating of class 400 as proposed would stifle this...

...we are enjoined by the so-called ratemaking rule of section 15a (2) of the act to give consideration to the "effect of rates on the movement of traffic...carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed." Moreover, the defendants' action in concurring in a rate reduction over some routes and refusing to...

...transportation and among such carriers in the public interest;" and in section 216 (i) it is stated that in the exercise of its power to prescribe just and...Commission shall give due consideration, among other things, "to the inherent advantages of transportation by such carriers" and "to the need in the public...

...prescribing just and reasonable rates, to consider the effect of rates on the movement of traffic and the need, in the public interest, of adequate and...transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with furnishing it. Sugar from Gulf Coast Port Groups to Northern Points, 623 (643). Prohibitive Bates:...

...distances. In exercising its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission is required to give due consideration, among other factors, to the...of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier )r carriers for which the rates are prescribed. It is clear that the continuance of the assailed 31-cent...

...Section 15a (2) of the act provides that in passing upon the justness and reasonableness of rates we shall "give due consideration, among other factors,...to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the...

...Emergency Transportation Act, 1933. There somewhat different language was used, as follows: 15a. (2) In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give <lue consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic; to the...