National Highway Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 4260, to Create a Federal Highway Corporation for Financing the Construction of the National System of Interstate Highways; to Amend and Supplement the Federal-aid Road Act Approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 355), as Amended and Supplemented; and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 1339 pages |
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Page 1095
... Bresnahan , William A. , assistant general manager , American Trucking Association . Burger , George J. , vice president , National Federation of Independent Business_ . Du Pont , Francis V. , special consultant to the Secretary of ...
... Bresnahan , William A. , assistant general manager , American Trucking Association . Burger , George J. , vice president , National Federation of Independent Business_ . Du Pont , Francis V. , special consultant to the Secretary of ...
Page 1108
... BRESNAHAN . Yes , sir . Mr. FALLON . Will you come up , please , and give the reporter your full name and title ? STATEMENT OF WILLIAM A. BRESNAHAN , ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER , AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION Mr. BRESNAHAN . My name is ...
... BRESNAHAN . Yes , sir . Mr. FALLON . Will you come up , please , and give the reporter your full name and title ? STATEMENT OF WILLIAM A. BRESNAHAN , ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER , AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION Mr. BRESNAHAN . My name is ...
Page 1110
... industry do you people make long- term contracts with your customers where you are committed to do the trucking for a period in the future ? Mr. BRESNAHAN . Not the common carriers , certainly . 1110 NATIONAL HIGHWAY PROGRAM.
... industry do you people make long- term contracts with your customers where you are committed to do the trucking for a period in the future ? Mr. BRESNAHAN . Not the common carriers , certainly . 1110 NATIONAL HIGHWAY PROGRAM.
Page 1111
... BRESNAHAN . Not the common carriers , certainly . To some ex- tent there may be some understandings between the contract carriers . and their clients . Mr. DONDERO . One other question . Is there any plan or program in the trucking ...
... BRESNAHAN . Not the common carriers , certainly . To some ex- tent there may be some understandings between the contract carriers . and their clients . Mr. DONDERO . One other question . Is there any plan or program in the trucking ...
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... Bresnahan , that the uncon- tradicted testimony by experts is to the effect that there would be a saving of 4 cents a mile . Is there any industry or any group that would benefit more by the improvement of the highway system pro- posed ...
... Bresnahan , that the uncon- tradicted testimony by experts is to the effect that there would be a saving of 4 cents a mile . Is there any industry or any group that would benefit more by the improvement of the highway system pro- posed ...
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Page 1102 - ... shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof, and such funds shall be deemed to have been expended when so obligated.
Page 1098 - Federal-aid secondary system shall not exceed 50 per centum of the cost of construction, except that in the case of any State containing unappropriated and unreserved public lands and nontaxable Indian lands, individual and tribal, exceeding 5 per centum of the total area of all lands therein, the...
Page 1098 - Any amount apportioned under the provisions of this act unexpended at the end of the period during which it is available for expenditure under the terms of this section shall be reapportioned, within sixty days thereafter, to all the States in the same manner and on the same basis, and certified to the Secretary of...
Page 1103 - If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 1103 - Secretary that such action will promote the development of an Integrated Interstate System, the Secretary is authorized to approve as part of the Interstate System any toll road, bridge or tunnel, now or hereafter constructed which meets the standards adopted for the improvement of projects located on the Interstate System...
Page 1101 - ... is held by a dealer and has not been used and is intended for sale, there shall be credited or refunded (without interest) to the manufacturer, producer, or importer an amount equal to the difference between the tax paid by such manufacturer, producer, or importer on his sale of the article and the...
Page 1229 - Automobile truck chassis. Automobile truck bodies. Automobile bus chassis. Automobile bus bodies. Truck and bus trailer and semitrailer chassis. Truck and bus trailer and semitrailer bodies. Tractors of the kind chiefly used for highway transportation in combination with a trailer or semitrailer.
Page 1102 - Acts or of this section to the State highway department of such State or to such political subdivision thereof as its laws may provide, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the State highway department, or political subdivisions to which the conveyance Is to be made.
Page 1100 - The table of sections for part II of subchapter A of chapter 32 is amended by striking out "Sec. 4072. Definition of rubber." and inserting in lieu thereof "Sec. 4072. Definitions.
Page 1098 - For the purpose of expediting the construction, reconstruction, and improvement, inclusive of necessary bridges and tunnels, of the national system of interstate highways, including extensions thereof through urban areas, designated in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 (58 Stat.