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 H.R. 6142 Bills to Amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, So as to Provide for a Stronger National Transportation Industry, and for Other Purposes ; H.R. 525 a Bill to Amend Section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, and for Other Purposes ; H.R. 6208 a Bill to Amend Paragraph (1) of Section 4 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended ; H.R. 9177 a Bill to Amend Section 405(a), Part IV, of the Interstate Commerce Act, H.R. 9548, a Bill to Amend Section 409 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, with Respect to Authorize Contracts Between Freight Forwarders and Railroads for the Movement of Trailers on Flatcars ; H.R. 9771 a Bill to Amend Section 411 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, with Respect to Relationships Between Freight Forwarders and Other Common Carriers ; H.R. 9772 a Bill to Amend Section 410 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as Amended, to Change the Requirements for Obtaining a Freight Forwarder Permit ; H.R. 6111 and S. 1777 Bills to Amend Interstate Commerce Act with Respect to the Transportation of Certain Disabled Persons ...Considers legislation to revise ICC freight and passenger transportation regulation, focusing on ratemaking procedures. |
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... percent of the budget of the Department . All but one of the major Federal transport promotional programs are within the Department of Commerce the exception being the program of navigation improvements by the Army Engineers . There is ...
... percent of the budget of the Department . All but one of the major Federal transport promotional programs are within the Department of Commerce the exception being the program of navigation improvements by the Army Engineers . There is ...
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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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