Interstate Commerce Commission

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1. Mon, Jul 202 items
   1. Study of Alaska transportation: hearings before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session on S. 1725, S. 1839, S. 1978, S. 2413, and S. 2484, bills to establish through routes and joint rates and joint board to review such rates, terminal area exemption, provide for the regulation of the Alaska Railroad under the ICC, establish an International Reception Center at Anchorage; and other matters of Alaskan transporation interests, October 20, 21, 25, and 27, 1961, Fairbanks, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, Ketchikan, Alaska.The federal agency proposed to regulate the Alaska Railroad.
   2. Fourth-class mail: hearing before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session on H.R. 5938, and similar bills, bills to repeal the provisions of law relating to the fixing of the Postmaster General, with the consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission, of rates of postage on fourth-class mail, and for other purposes ...
2. Tue, Jul 142 items
   1. Guaranteed loans for railroads: hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 1163, a bill to amend Section 510 of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to extend for one year the loan guaranty authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission. March 1 and 2, 1961.The federal body authorized to provide loan guarantees to railroads.
   2. Fourth-class mail rates: hearings before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5795, a bill to repeal the provisions of law relating to the fixing by the Postmaster General with the consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission of rates of postage on fourth-class mail, and for other purposes; H.R. 2525, a bill to vest in Congress the exclusive authority to set rates of postage for fourth-class mail, May 1, 2, 8, 15, 22, 23, and June 4, 5, 1963.

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