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xvi, 384 pages ; 21 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical notes (pages 367-368) and index. |
| Contents |
Introducation -- Federal regulation, 1910 to 1916 -- Rate regulation -- The long and short haul -- The commerce court -- Administrative activities -- Relations of rail and water lines -- The labor program -- The War period -- The railroads' war board -- Federal control -- Federal operation -- Rate regulation -- Relation of the railroad administration to other regulating agencies -- The government and labor -- Financial results. Summary of federal operation -- Return to private operation -- The problem of reconstruction and the act of 1920 -- The problem of rates -- The problems of rates (continued) -- The conflict of jurisdiction, state, and insterstate -- Railroad consolidation and federal incorporation -- Federal regulations of capitalization -- Administrative powers -- Regulation of wages and working conditions -- Regulation of water traffic -- The future. |
| Summary |
With the creation of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, in 1887, the relationship of the federal government to the railroads assumed an importance for the public that it had never before possessed. For the first time a body endowed with executive and judicial func tions - what was to be known as an administrative body was to take a position as an arbiter between the public and our national transportation system. The plan had been tried for a decade or two in some of the states. It was now to be given a wider opportunity and a more critical test. |
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Railroads and state -- United States.
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Railroads and state. (OCoLC)fst01089339
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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