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Страница 634 - Michigan : the southern classification which governs generally in the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi River...
Страница 505 - ... irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported ; and it shall be the duty of every carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through routes and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto.
Страница 408 - That nothing in this act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Страница 374 - flammable liquid" means any liquid which gives off flammable vapors (as determined by flashpoint from an open-cup tester, as used for test of burning oils) at or below a temperature of 80° F. Flammable liquids having lethal qualities are those having the characteristics of class "B" or "C" poisons as defined in §§ 146.25-10 and 146.25-15, of Subchapter N (Dangerous Cargoes) of this chapter.
Страница 523 - ... substantially less than the entire length of its railroad and of any intermediate railroad operated in conjunction and under a common management or control therewith, which lies between the termini of such proposed through route, (a) unless such inclusion of lines would make the through route unreasonably long as compared with another practicable through route which could otherwise be established...
Страница 51 - ... handling the traffic across the bridges spanning the Mississippi River, but simply to make a basis for the difference between the rates to those crossings and the rates to the lower crossings. Although published as separate charges to be added to the 92-cent scale of rates, this is done, as the carriers say, merely because the aggregate charges thus constructed are not made or joined in by the eastern lines. This view of the matter is supported by the fact that the so-called "122-per-cent-plus...
Страница 238 - ... basis of the minimum carload fixed in the tariffs for cars of the dimensions or capacity ordered by the shipper, provided the shipment could have "been loaded into or upon car of the capacity or size ordered; and that if a car of smaller capacity than that ordered by the shipper is furnished, it may be used on the basis of actual weight when loaded to its capacity...
Страница 138 - Neither is it conformable to plain principles of justice that a shipper may understate the value of his property for the purpose of reducing the rate, and then recover a larger value in case of loss.
Страница 614 - We are given jurisdiction over traffic from a point in the United States to a point in Canada, and...
Страница 323 - It is not legislation for the safety, health or proper convenience of the public, but an arbitrary enactment in favor of the persons spoken of, who in the legislative judgment should be carried at a less expense than the other members of the community.

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