Surface Transportation Ratemaking Bills: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fifty Congress, First Session, on S. 377 [and Others] ... |
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Page 5 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 193 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
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| Title | Surface Transportation Ratemaking Bills: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fifty Congress, First Session, on S. 377 [and Others] ... |
| Authors | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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