Beaver and Mahoning Rivers, Pa. and Ohio: Hearings Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on the Subject of the Improvement of the Beaver and Mahoning Rivers, Pa. and Ohio, September 30, October 1, 2, 3, and 6, 1941 |
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approved ARGETSINGER Army engineers Ashtabula barges Beaver and Mahoning Beaver County Beaver River Beaver-Mahoning BEITER bituminous coal Board of Engineers capacity cents CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers Cleveland coal rates coke Colonel NORTH commodities competition Congress construction cost DONDERO estimated ex-river facilities feet FORSBERG freight rates going Harbors Committee haul HEARD House Document improvement increased interests Interstate Commerce Commission iron and steel JAMISON KERN KIRWAN Lake Erie lake-cargo located locks LUHRSEN Mahoning Rivers Mahoning Valley miles mills per ton-mile Monongahela Monongahela River move movement navigation Ohio River operation Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Railroad percent pig iron PITTENGER Pittsburgh district points President rail rates railroads reduced Republic Steel Corporation revenue RHODEHOUSE Rivers and Harbors scrap Sheet & Tube Shenango Shenango River statement steel industry steel plants steel products Struthers tion tonnage traffic trunk lines United water transportation Youngstown district Youngstown Sheet
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Page 412 - ... to the need, in the public interest of adequate and efficient transportation service by such carriers at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable such carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 131 - Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service, and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 234 - That the Commission may, in its discretion and for good cause shown, allow changes upon less than the notice herein specified, or modify the requirements of this section in respect to publishing, posting, and filing of tariffs, either in particular instances or by a general order applicable to special or peculiar circumstances or conditions.
Page 117 - That as used in this section the term 'carrier' means a common carrier by railroad (except a street, suburban, or interurban electric railway which is not operated as a part of a general steam railroad system of transportation...
Page 234 - ... rates, fares, or charges will go into effect ; and the proposed changes shall be shown by printing new schedules, or shall be plainly indicated upon the...
Page 233 - An act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and amendments thereto.
Page 223 - Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Page 235 - ... for the Government when required to do so by any department thereof, the Government at all times having the preference in the use of the road for all the purposes aforesaid at fair and reasonable rates of compensation, not exceeding that paid by private individuals or the average paid for like services on other roads.
Page 234 - ... public notice, which notice shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made in the schedules then in force, and the time when the changed schedules will go into effect, and the proposed changes will be shown by printing new schedules, or shall be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force at the time and kept for public inspection.
Page 85 - ... favoritism of the eastern Ohio mining districts on bituminous coal to northeastern Ohio, and discrimination against interstate commerce. The details of these complaints will presently be discussed. The Pittsburgh district rate to Youngstown, Ohio, was considered in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. P. <& LERR Co., 29 ICC 428, where the then existing rate of 70 cents was found not unreasonable. Before and since that finding the Ohio No. 8 rate to Youngstown has been the same as the rate from the...