Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 164L.K. Strouse, 1930 |
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Page 849 - ... 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, earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair return upon the aggregate value of the railway property of such carriers held for and used in the service of transportation...
Page 316 - Commission instituted an investigation to determine what would be reasonable class rates throughout the territory lying north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi River and the west bank of Lake Michigan.
Page 849 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic...
Page 412 - In view of the existing depression in agriculture, the Commission is hereby directed to effect with the least practicable delay such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of the products of agriculture affected by that depression, including live stock, at the lowest possible lawful rates compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service: Provided,
Page 590 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 329 - Army engineers located, constructed, and managed such well-known roads as the Baltimore & Ohio ; the Northern Central ; the Erie : the Boston & Providence ; the New York, New Haven & Hartford ; and the Boston & Albany. Practically all of the transcontinental railroads were projected by the Army.
Page 387 - ... the shortest routes over which carload traffic can be moved without transfer of lading.
Page 673 - The action here taken represents the fullest possible response to all the mandates of the law affecting, among other things, the important subjects of levels and relations of rates, the natural and proper development of the country as a whole, and the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation
Page 525 - Error of any railroad named in the bill of lading contract or participating in the transportation transaction, which prevents proper tender or delivery. 1. Under this Rule demurrage will be charged on the basis of the amount that would have accrued but for such error. This also applies in the case of constructively placed cars being "run-around...
Page 368 - Indeed, to rate a given article the same in all three classifications often results in less actual uniformity than if different classes were used. For example, the class C rates under the Memphis-Southwestern scale are 35 per cent of first class, whereas in western trunk-line and official territories the fifth-class rates are approximately that percentage of first class. So long as vital differences in classification exist it is impossible to bring about uniform class percentages throughout the country,...