Set up in 1887 to regulate railroads, this commission was given authority over trucking in 1935
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Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 - Wikipedia  The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not ... The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 strengthened ICC authority over railroad rates and expanded...
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Interstate Commerce Commission - Wikipedia  The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) ... Congress expanded ICC authority to regulate other modes of commerce ..... 498, approved 1935-08-09.
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Deregulation of Railroads | League of Women Voters  Competing railroads agreed to the division of rail traffic and receipts at stipulated ratios. ... practices by industry led to passage of the Interstate Commerce Actof 1887. ... railroads to service low density, unprofitable lines and to set minimum rates. .... was given the authority to regulate the trucking industry in 1935 following...
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Federal Motor Carrier Act of 1935 - Scholarship@Cornell Law: A ...  operation of Class I railroads for the years 1925, 193o and 1934, and motor truck ... regulation thereon.10 Despite the lengths to which state power over ... part of the trucking concerns. ..... authority conferred by the act the Commission has postponed the .... of regulations set up by the Commission meantime or instituted later.
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Trucking Deregulation, by Thomas Gale Moore: The Concise ...  The Motor Carrier Act of 1935 required new truckers to seek a "certificate of ... If the proposed tariffs were protested by another carrier (such as a trucker, a regulated water carrier, or a railroad), ... a desire to carry the goods should be given the opportunity to do so; the new ... This act limited the ICC's authority over trucking.
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Background - NYC.gov  New York City's power to regulate use, bulk, density of buildings, to promote ... grants municipalities the power to regulate land use in a manner designed to ... The 1916 ZR has had a profound influence on urban development across ... 1926), many U.S. towns, villages, and cities developed zoning ordinances and controls.
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Insider Trading - Securities and Exchange Commission  The type of insider trading we discuss here is the illegal variety that most of .... Act of 1934, aimed at controlling the abuses believed to have contributed to the crash ... interpretation and the flexibility to meet new schemes and contrivances head on .... It provides that members may enact laws more stringent than set out in the...
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CATTLE TRAILING | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State ...  Cattle trailing was the principal method of getting cattle to market in the late nineteenth ... Although their heyday was from 1866 to 1890, organized livestock drives to ... and safer Shawnee Trail through Indian Territory either to Kansas City or to ... Railroad connections with northern and eastern markets, available in Texas...
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Our Documents - Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)  The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress ... The Sherman Antitrust Act was based on the constitutional power of Congress to ... This allowed the Standard Oil to function as a monopoly since the nine ... In the late 1990s, in another effort to ensure a competitive free market system,...
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The Growth of Labor Relations during World War II - Western ...  Henry Ford and Henry Kaiser were a large part of the labor history of the ... governmental policy and the reactions of both business and unions to these policies, from .... construction and, within three weeks, he switched his factories back to the construction of ... The 1935 National Labor Relations Act, or the Wagner Act
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House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure - GovTrack.us  The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has jurisdiction over all modes of transportation: aviation, maritime and waterborne transportation, highways, ... Chair, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials .... Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities.
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WIGHTMAN v. SPRINGFIELD TERMINAL RAILWAY COMPANY ...  The RLA authorizes carriers and unions to establish union shops. ... employees must belong to one of the national, RLA recognized railroad unions. ... The former encompasses conductors, brakemen, trainmen and yardmen, and the ..... 24 L.Ed.2d 136 (1969), involved a dispute between BLE and the firemen's union over...
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November 21, 2003 - Commodity Futures Trading Commission  In 1922, Congress enacted the Grain Futures Act, which was the first federal regulation of ... it is clear that Chicago, the birthplace of the futures industry in our nation, ... or pit-trading exchanges to ensure that standardized futures trading occurred in ... for sophisticated counterparties through regulated banking institutions.
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Full text of "Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the ...  We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google .... 5 The above provision came into operation as law July 1, 1886, and it is ...... In looking back over the progress of our merchant shipping, we find that, up to ...... men, while for building iron vessels a considerable outlay in the supply of tools,...
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Chisholm Trail - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society  Cattle drives from Texas started as early as 1836 with some ranchers using this method to get their cattle to railheads so they could sell them for beef, hides and tallow. ... An entrepreneur, Joseph McCoy, took advantage of the change in the Kansas law to start campaigning for cattle drives to the small town of Abilene.
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Texas Railroad Sesquicentennial - History of the BBB&C  With this, the BBB&C became not only the first railroad to operate in Texas, but the first ... One of them, the Harrisburg and Brazos Rail Road, was planned in 1839 by Andrew ... The Galveston News reported in September 1853 that the train would run between ... In 1885 the GH&SA was leased to the Southern Pacific.
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The Beginning, Railroads Of The 1830s - American-Rails.com  The beginning of railroads in this country date back to as early as the latter 18th ... to serve the public at large, handling both freight and passenger business) was ... The B&O began testing its first steam-powered locomotive in August of 1830 ... also be the first American-built design to haul a revenue train when it carried a...
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Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 - Wikipedia  The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to ... The Act created a federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce ... The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 strengthened ICC authority over railroad rates and ... In 1935, Congress passed the Motor Carrier Act, which amended the...
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Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado  the First Railroad in Texas ...  Jan 28, 2016 ... Drawing of the General Sherman, the first locomotive in Texas.[1] ... The BBB&C was issued this certificate[3] for 640 acres for ... to the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad (GH&SA). ... Thus the original BBB&C railroad, in addition to being the first railroad in Texas, became a key segment in...
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PCC streetcar - Wikipedia  Track gauge  Wide, Standard, Narrow Gauges. The PCC (Presidents' Conference Committee) is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in ... In late 1935 or early in 1936 Westinghouse Electric pressed for one car to be equipped with .... PCC cars for Canadian cities were assembled in Montreal, Quebec by Canadian...
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General Grievance Committee Records., 1917-1981 (bulk 1930-1966).  In 1969 the BRT merged with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, and the Switchmen's Union ... BRT lodges, which apparently were organized or grouped together by carrier ... Missouri Lodge 967 Oelwein, Iowa "Hub City" These lodge numbers appear...