The Commodities' Clause: A Treatise on the Development and Enactment of the Commodities' Clause and Its Construction when Applied to Inter-state Railroads Engaged in the Coal Industry |
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... mines extremely profitable , and any affiliation between carriers and ad- joining coal mines invariably results to the disadvantage of mines not so related . The simple extension of special rates and serv- ices to affiliated mines has ...
... mines extremely profitable , and any affiliation between carriers and ad- joining coal mines invariably results to the disadvantage of mines not so related . The simple extension of special rates and serv- ices to affiliated mines has ...
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... mines . This result was accomplished through , the direct ownership and operation of coal mines ; the ownership of stock in such mines ; the creation and control of corporations through which the ... COAL - MINING ΙΟ THE COMMODITIES ' CLAUSE.
... mines . This result was accomplished through , the direct ownership and operation of coal mines ; the ownership of stock in such mines ; the creation and control of corporations through which the ... COAL - MINING ΙΟ THE COMMODITIES ' CLAUSE.
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... Coal Industry Thomas Latimer Kibler. CHAPTER I THE STATUS OF RAILWAY AND COAL - MINING RE- LATIONSHIPS IN EUROPE I. The State and The Coal Industry . The European and American governmental policies toward railways appear in striking ...
... Coal Industry Thomas Latimer Kibler. CHAPTER I THE STATUS OF RAILWAY AND COAL - MINING RE- LATIONSHIPS IN EUROPE I. The State and The Coal Industry . The European and American governmental policies toward railways appear in striking ...
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... coal mines . For the most part such mines are confined to the state of Prussia . For many years small mines in the Saar District and in Upper Silesia have been owned and operated by this state . In 1902 , extensive holdings were ...
... coal mines . For the most part such mines are confined to the state of Prussia . For many years small mines in the Saar District and in Upper Silesia have been owned and operated by this state . In 1902 , extensive holdings were ...
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... Coal Industry Thomas Latimer Kibler. ficient , however , materially to affect the retail price of coal . The German government has also endeavored , through publicity and the ... COAL MINES . 13 European Railways and the Coal Industry,
... Coal Industry Thomas Latimer Kibler. ficient , however , materially to affect the retail price of coal . The German government has also endeavored , through publicity and the ... COAL MINES . 13 European Railways and the Coal Industry,
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Page 89 - From and after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to transport from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect...
Page 88 - That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines...
Page 102 - We then construe the statute as prohibiting a railroad company engaged in interstate commerce from transporting in such commerce articles or commodities under the following circumstances and conditions: (a) When the article or commodity has been manufactured, mined or produced by a carrier or under its authority, and at the time of transportation the carrier has not in good faith before the act of transportation dissociated itself from such article or commodity...
Page 85 - ... private side track, which may be constructed to connect with its railroad, where such connection is reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety and will furnish sufficient business to justify the construction and maintenance of the same...
Page 88 - ... who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this act...
Page 102 - In my judgment the act, reasonably and properly construed, according to its language, includes within its prohibitions a railroad company transporting coal, if, at the time, it is the owner, legally or equitably, of stock — certainly, if it owns a majority or all the stock — in the company which mined, manufactured or produced, and then owns, the coal which is being transported by such railroad company.
Page 99 - ... construed, not confined to the time when a carrier transports the commodities with which the prohibitions are concerned, and hence the prohibitions attach and operate upon the right to transport the commodity because of the antecedent acts of manufacture, mining or production. Certain also is it that the two prohibitions concerning ownership, in whole or in part, and interest, direct or indirect, speak in the present and not in the past; that is, they refer to the time of the transportation of...
Page 148 - No such company shall subscribe to or participate in any underwriting of the purchase or sale of securities or property, or enter into any transaction for such purchase or sale on account of said company jointly with any other person...
Page 109 - But a series of such contracts, if the result of a concerted plan or plot between the defendants to thereby secure control of the sale of the independent coal in the markets of other States, and thereby suppress competition in prices between their own output and that of the independent operators, would come plainly within the terms of the statute, and as parts of the scheme or plot would be unlawful.
Page 153 - No student of the railroad problem can doubt that a most prolific source of financial disaster and complication to railroads in the past has been the desire and ability of railroad managers to engage in enterprises outside the legitimate operation of their railroads, especially by the acquisition of other railroads and their securities.