Merger of International Telegraph Carriers: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on a Proposal to Amend the Communications Act of 1934, as Amended, to Permit Consolidations Or Mergers of International Telegraph and Marine Carriers, and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 391 pages |
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AACR AC&R CCC MRT agreement airmail amended and/or marine carrier approval AT&T average net plant bill Cable & Radio Cable & Wireless circuits coaxial cable Colonel BAILEY Commercial Cable committee competition consolidation or merger Defense Department developments DOERFER domestic telegraph carrier facilities Federal Communications Commission field foreign French RCA WU French-C&W Government Govt Continuous Govt Scheduled Govt-Govt international carriers international telegraph and/or international telegraph carriers international telegraph industry MARSHALL MCCAMBRIDGE ment merger legislation merger of international military monopoly net operating income operating income operating revenues overseas paragraph Percent of 1950 permissive merger permit present Press Wireless proposed public interest radiotelegraph RCAC routed CCC San Francisco-Manila Senator MONRONEY Senator PASTORE SHOW COMPARATIVE QUALITY statement subsection tape relay telegraph and marine telegraph and/or marine telex tion traffic transatlantic transatlantic telephone cables U.S. Senate United Kingdom Unless routed Western Union York York-London York-Paris
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Page 41 - No carrier shall discontinue, reduce, or impair service to a community, or part of a community, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that neither...
Page 290 - Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. This concentration is seriously impairing the economic effectiveness of private enterprise as a way of providing employment for labor and capital and as a way of assuring a more equitable distribution of income and earnings among the people of the Nation as a whole.
Page 2 - domestic telegraph carrier' means any common carrier by wire or radio, the major portion of whose traffic and revenues is derived from domestic telegraph operations; and such term includes a corporation owning or controlling any such common carrier. "(3) The term 'international telegraph carrier...
Page 18 - From and after issuance of such certificate, and not before, the carrier by railroad may. without securing approval other than such certificate, comply with the terms and conditions contained in or attached to the issuance of such certificate and proceed with the construction, operation, or abandonment covered thereby.
Page 18 - Any construction, operation, or abandonment contrary to the provisions of this paragraph or of paragraph (18) or (19) of this section may be enjoined by any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the United States, the Commission, any commission or regulating body of the State or States affected, or any party in interest...
Page 264 - ... consolidation or merger, and whose period of employment began on or before March 1, 1941, shall be employed by the carrier resulting from such consolidation or merger for a period of not less than four years from the date of the approval of such consolidation or merger, and during such period no such employee shall, without his consent, have his compensation reduced or be assigned to work which is Inconsistent with his past training and experience in the telegraph Industry.
Page 290 - ... is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
Page 120 - Although we think RCAC's contention that an applicant must demonstrate tangible benefits is asking too much, it is not too much to ask that there be ground for reasonable expectation that competition may have some beneficial effect.
Page 8 - Act in the case of employees covered by that Act; and the National Labor Relations Board and the courts of the United States (including the courts of the District of Columbia) shall have jurisdiction and power to enforce and protect such rights, privileges, and immunities in the same manner as in the case of enforcement of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act.
Page 226 - In passing upon any proposed transaction under the provisions of this paragraph (2), the Commission shall give weight to the following considerations, among others: (1) The effect of the proposed transaction upon adequate transportation service to the public; (2) the effect upon the public interest of the inclusion, or failure to include, other railroads in the territory involved in the proposed transaction; (3) the total fixed charges resulting from the proposed transaction; and (4) the interest...