Transportation Policy: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 6141 [and Others], Part 1 |
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... percent of the total ton - mile traffic have increased their share to about 20 percent today . The growth in capacity of the various transport agencies as traced through the years measures in some degree their respective abilities to ...
... percent of the total ton - mile traffic have increased their share to about 20 percent today . The growth in capacity of the various transport agencies as traced through the years measures in some degree their respective abilities to ...
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... percent of the national income was derived from transportation companies , but that percentage has declined steadily until last year when it reached 4.8 percent . Has this decline been due to a lessened need for transportation service ...
... percent of the national income was derived from transportation companies , but that percentage has declined steadily until last year when it reached 4.8 percent . Has this decline been due to a lessened need for transportation service ...
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... percent in the years just preceding World War II . During the war it increased to over 70 percent . Since then there has been a rapid decline to 55 percent in 1954 , the latest year for which data are available . In some years since ...
... percent in the years just preceding World War II . During the war it increased to over 70 percent . Since then there has been a rapid decline to 55 percent in 1954 , the latest year for which data are available . In some years since ...
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... percent as compared with the dead- weight tonnage of tankers which has increased by some 32 percent . The prewar passenger ship fleet has vanished from both the coastwise and intercoastal trades . 1 / As used herein , the term ...
... percent as compared with the dead- weight tonnage of tankers which has increased by some 32 percent . The prewar passenger ship fleet has vanished from both the coastwise and intercoastal trades . 1 / As used herein , the term ...
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... percent of the total number of United States - flag vessels and about 40 percent of the deadweight tonnage so employed . While all types of vessels are indispensable to a large scale military operation , the continental coastwise trades ...
... percent of the total number of United States - flag vessels and about 40 percent of the deadweight tonnage so employed . While all types of vessels are indispensable to a large scale military operation , the continental coastwise trades ...
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Advisory Committee application ARPAIA authority bill cargo carload carrier by motor carriers by water carriers subject Chairman coastwise and intercoastal commodity rates common carriers compensatory competition Congress contract carriers cost deadweight tonnage Department of Defense DOLLIVER dry-cargo economic effect enactment established exemption fares filed FLYNT Foreign Commerce freight forwarders HARRIS HINSHAW increased intercoastal carriers intercoastal trade Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission joint rates legislation maximum ment military minimum rates mode of transportation motor carriers motor vehicle movement national transportation policy operation Panama Canal panel passenger percent PERCY PRIEST permit portation ports prescribe present proposed rate provisions of section rail railroads ratemaking reasonable minimum charges recommendations reduced rates regulation regulatory repeal ROTHSCHILD routes Secretary WEEKS section 15a section 22 shipments shippers ships SMITH statement suspension tanker tariff tion tonnage tons trans transcontinental railroads transportation service truck United vessels water carriers waterway