 | Public Ownership League of America - 1919 - 304 halaman
...hereby created a transportation board which shall be composed of five members to be appointed by , the President, by and with the advice of the Senate....railroads. This board of five, appoined at a salary of $12,000 each, must divide these up into not less than 20 nor more than 35 railroads or systems, and... | |
 | Academy of Political Science (U.S.) - 1922 - 448 halaman
...done. This is the reason the committee has decided that it would be better to consolidate the railroads of the United States into not less than 20 nor more than 35 systems, in order to accomplish, first, the possibility of imposing a given body of rates upon the carriers... | |
 | Alexander Rogers Smith - 1922 - 832 halaman
...Association of the Port of New York strongly urges the Interstate Commerce Commission in considering any plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of the United States into a limited number of systems, to approve the plan of the New York Central Railroad Company for the consolidation... | |
 | 1923 - 614 halaman
...consolidation of railroads. The law, as enacted in 1920, provides that the Interstate Commerce Commission shall prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of the United States, and in .this consolidation competition shall be preserved as fully as possible, and existing trade... | |
 | California Public Utilities Commission - 1923 - 808 halaman
...consolidations in accordance with its tentative plan or any other plan. It merely is under mandate to ' ' prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems. ' ' The act provides, however, that once... | |
 | Joint New England Railroad Committee - 1923 - 354 halaman
...Transportation Act of 1920 (Esch-Cummins Act) which directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to " prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems." At this conference it was agreed that... | |
 | Julius Grodinsky - 1925 - 84 halaman
...consolidations is provided for in the Act (section 4 to 6, inclusive). The Commission is directed to prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems. The Commission is then directed, after... | |
 | S. Howard Patterson, Karl William Henry Scholz - 1927 - 640 halaman
...5| per cent of the railroad's capital investment. The Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of continental United States into a limited number of systems. Nevertheless, the pious hope was expressed... | |
 | 1928 - 658 halaman
...speculative operations. The Transportation Act also directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of the country into a limited number of systems. Although the commission did publish a tentative plan on August... | |
 | 1920 - 820 halaman
...done. This is the reason the committee has decided that it would be better to consolidate the railroads of the United States into not less than 20 nor more than 35 systems, in order to accomplish, first, the possibility of imposing a given body of rates upon the carriers... | |
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Section 5 of the interstate commerce act directs the commission to prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railroad properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems which shall conform as closely as practicable... 
