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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... shippers , particularly smaller shippers . The great majority of requests for suspension are filed by competing carriers and it was the feeling of the Advisory Committee that this procedure has become a device to thwart competition by ...
... shippers , particularly smaller shippers . The great majority of requests for suspension are filed by competing carriers and it was the feeling of the Advisory Committee that this procedure has become a device to thwart competition by ...
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... shippers . his cost and revenue outlook is adversely affected . Often he must as a result raise his rates to shippers who cannot ship except by common carrier . Most often this means small business . This fact was recognized by the ...
... shippers . his cost and revenue outlook is adversely affected . Often he must as a result raise his rates to shippers who cannot ship except by common carrier . Most often this means small business . This fact was recognized by the ...
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... shippers the benefits available through both inherent cost and service advantages of every mode of transport . Carriers with cost advantages should be permitted to offer service at competitive rates which do not unjustly discriminate ...
... shippers the benefits available through both inherent cost and service advantages of every mode of transport . Carriers with cost advantages should be permitted to offer service at competitive rates which do not unjustly discriminate ...
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... shippers attach value to superior service , they presumably would be willing to pay for it . Opportunity for carriers to adjust rates more closely to costs will afford shippers this election , and provide a test of the value assigned to ...
... shippers attach value to superior service , they presumably would be willing to pay for it . Opportunity for carriers to adjust rates more closely to costs will afford shippers this election , and provide a test of the value assigned to ...
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... shippers under certain circumstances . Hence , in 1910 , Con- gress granted authority to the Commission to suspend proposals to change rates before they went into effect pending a determination of their lawfulness . As originally ...
... shippers under certain circumstances . Hence , in 1910 , Con- gress granted authority to the Commission to suspend proposals to change rates before they went into effect pending a determination of their lawfulness . As originally ...
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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