| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 pages
...avowedly a reversal of policy. It directed that the Interstate Commerce Commission "prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems." The significance of the Act is that, for the first time Congress realized that it is possible, in pursuing... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1925 - 886 pages
...When the Transportation Act was passed at Washington, in 1920, with its careful and explicit provision for ''the consolidation of the railway properties...Continental United States into a limited number of sysRailways terns," the act plainly expressed the government's purpose that the railways should be... | |
| 1927 - 844 pages
...future. When the Transportation Act of 1920 provided in ?eneral terms for " the consolFinance idation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems" and when, in accordance with that Act, the Interstate Commerce Commission proposed in 1921 a "tentative... | |
| Guaranty Trust Company of New York - 1919 - 664 pages
...deem necessary or appropriate. "(4) The Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems. In the division of such railways into such systems under such plan, competition shall be preserved... | |
| Roger Foster - 1920 - 1184 pages
...deem necessary or appropriate. "(4) The Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems. In the division of such railways into such systems under such plan, competition shall be preserved... | |
| Edgar Watkins - 1920 - 940 pages
...352B. Commission to Adopt a Plan.— The Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems. In the division of such railways into such systems under such plan, competition shall be preserved... | |
| United States. Congress - 1920 - 574 pages
...requires the commission to prepare and adopt, as soon as practicable, a plan for the consolidation of railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems. It authorizes carriers, with the approval of the commission, and subject to certain restrictions, to... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1921 - 316 pages
...RAILROADS. On May 11, 1920, we instituted an investigation for the purpose of preparing and adopting a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...United States into a limited number of systems as contemplated in paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 5 of the interstate commerce act. All common carriers... | |
| Isaiah Leo Sharfman - 1921 - 500 pages
...unlimited multiple ownership. The Interstate Commerce Commission is directed to prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems. In the development of this plan of consolidation the Commission is enjoined to preserve competition... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1921 - 648 pages
...plan provides (par. 4, sec. 5) : The commission shall, as soon as practicable, prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States .into a limited number of systems. In the division of such railways into such systems under such plan competition shall be preserved as... | |
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