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Page 7 - ... the number of stockholders; the funded and floating debts and the interest paid thereon; the cost and value of the carrier's property, franchises, and equipment...
Page 71 - An Act to authorize the President of the United States in certain Cases to take Possession of Railroad and Telegraph Lines, and for other Purposes.
Page 35 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 16 - Rapport fait au nom de la Commission du budget chargée d'examiner le projet de loi portant fixation du budget général de l'exercice 1901 (par M.
Page 27 - serious Injury" as used in paragraph (a) of this section shall mean "an injury to any person sufficient, in the opinion of the reporting officer, to incapacitate the injured person from following his customary vocation or mode of life for a period of more than three days in the aggregate during the ten days immediately following the accident.
Page 35 - ... system, or to run any train in such traffic after said date that has not a sufficient number of cars in it so equipped with power or train-brakes that the engineer on the locomotive drawing such train can control its speed without requiring brakemen to use the common hand brake for that purpose.
Page 6 - A Comparative Study of Railway Wages and the Cost of Living in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Principal Countries of Continental Europe," Bureau of Railway Economics, Bulletin No.
Page 24 - Parlement; les présidents de la commission des chemins de fer et de la commission des douanes du Sénat; le président et le rapporteur général de la commission des finances du Sénat; les présidents de la commission des travaux publics, des chemins de fer et des voies de communication...
Page 1 - ... areas of the Mississippi and Missouri River floodplains were inundated as the State experienced its longest flood of record. When it was realized flood period would be long ranging, a request was made to NASA/Goddard for U-2 or RB-57 coverage. On April 12, 1973, the Missouri River from Kansas City to St. Louis and the Mississippi River from St. Louis to the southern tip of the State was flown. The third and highest crest occurred on April 28th and 29th. Six days later on May 4, 1973, the Missouri...
Page 62 - ... alone as a charge upon the commerce of the country. Such is the attractive side of Government ownership; but it ignores, of course, the possible evils of bureaucracy, unbusinesslike methods, political patronage, etc. The plan of Government ownership has the attractiveness of simplicity and directness. National ownership can, in my judgment, be met successfully only by a policy of national incorporation and control, which has the advantage of almost equal simplicity and directness.