The American Railroad Problem: A Study in War and ReconstructionCentury Company, 1921 - 474 стор. |
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The American Railroad Problem: A Study in War and Reconstruction Isaiah Leo Sharfman Повний перегляд - 1921 |
The American Railroad Problem: A Study in War and Reconstruction Isaiah Leo Sharfman Повний перегляд - 1921 |
The American Railroad Problem: A Study in War and Reconstruction Isaiah Leo Sharfman Повний перегляд - 1921 |
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Adamson Act adequate adjustment American railroad authority basis Brotherhoods capital car service carriers cent character charges Committee competition consolidation constitute coöperation corporate cost demands Director-General economic effective efficiency eight-hour day enactment enforcement enterprise eral Erdman Act Esch-Cummins Act essential established excess earnings extension facilities fair return fair value Federal Control freight function Government governmental Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission involved justments Labor Board labor relationships legislation machinery measure ment mileage miles months necessary needs net operating income organization period plant and equipment practices private management public interest public ownership rail Railroad Administration railroad credit railroad employees railroad industry railroad labor Railroad Labor Board railroad problem railroad properties railroad rates railroad regulation railroad service railway rate advances rate-making reasonable reconstruction rendered result revenue roads securities Senate shippers task terminals tion Transportation Act transportation service transportation system unification wage increases
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Сторінка 405 - ... either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, but upon reasonable notice...
Сторінка 225 - ... where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition or to restrain such commerce in any section or community or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
Сторінка 74 - The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion as far as may be necessary of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material and equipment, or for such other purposes in connection with the emergency as may be needful or desirable.
Сторінка 417 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates," the declaration specifies, "the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment...
Сторінка 412 - ... unless and until, and then only to the extent that, upon application by the carrier, and after investigation by the Commission of the purposes and uses of the proposed issue and the proceeds thereof, or of the proposed assumption of obligation or liability in respect of the securities of any other person, natural or artificial, the Commission by order authorizes such issue or assumption.
Сторінка 48 - The question of the reasonableness of a rate of charge for transportation by a railroad company, involving, as it does, the element of reasonableness both as regards the company and as regards the public, is eminently a question for judicial investigation, requiring due process of law for its determination.
Сторінка 421 - ... to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning rates of pay, rules, and working conditions, and to settle all disputes, whether arising out of the application of such agreements or otherwise, in order to avoid any interruption to commerce or to the operation of any carrier growing out of any dispute between the carrier and the employees thereof.
Сторінка 419 - Inasmuch as it is impossible (without regulation and control in the interest of the commerce of the United States considered as a whole) to establish uniform rates upon competitive traffic which will adequately sustain all the carriers which are engaged in such traffic and which are indispensable to the communities to which they render the service of transportation...
Сторінка 406 - Commission; (b) to make such just and reasonable directions with respect to car service without regard to the ownership as between carriers of locomotives, cars, and other vehicles, during such emergency as in its opinion will best promote the service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people...
Сторінка 406 - Commission may determine: (a) to suspend the operation of any or all rules, regulations, or practices then established with respect to car service for such time as may be determined by the Commission...