...be filed with the commission any schedule proposing a change in any rates, charges or regulations, the commission shall have, and it is hereby given...either upon complaint or upon its own initiative, upon reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of such rate, charge or regulation;...

...considerahle adverse and undeserved criticism. Under these emergency provisions, to quote the statute: Whenever the commission is of opinion that shortage...immediate action exists in any section of the country, then and thereupon to quote again : the commission shall have, and it is herehy given, authority, either...

...practice with respect to car service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful. Section 1 (15) provides that: "Whenever the Commission is of opinion that...section of the country, the Commission shall have * * * authority * * * at once * * * -with or without notice, hearing, or the making or filing of a...

...delegated to this Commission when an emergency exists, section 1 (15) provides, in part, as follows: Whenever the Commission is of opinion that shortage...emergency requiring immediate action exists in any seoCoc of the country, the Commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, •either upon...

...and respondent railroads' operations, facilities, and equipment "Whenever the Commission is of the opinion that shortage of equipment, congestion of...immediate action exists in any section of the country ***." Compare Interstate Commerce Commission \. Oregon Pacific Industries, Inc., 420 US 184 (1975)....

...which reads in pertinent part as follows: (a) When the Interstate Commerce Commission considers that a shortage of equipment, congestion of traffic, or other emergency requiring immediate action exists in a section of the United States, the Commission may — (4) give directions for *** movement of traffic...

...counting box cars as part of the distributive share of cars furnished mines unless it is first found that shortage of equipment, congestion of traffic,...other emergency requiring Immediate action, exists. Dickinson Fuel Co. v. C. & C. Ry. Co., 315 (317). The manifest intent of Congress was to repose in...

...individual or joint regulation or practice affecting any rate, fare, or charge, the commission- shall hare, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its oicn initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, mthout ansu'tr or other formal pleading...

...rental, charge, classification, contract, practice, rule or regulation, the commission shall have power, and it is hereby given authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative and without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleadings by the...

...classification, contract, rates niec?f practice, rule or regulation, the commission shall have power, and it is hereby given authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative and without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleadings by the...