Air-line Industry Investigation: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 50, a Resolution Authorizing the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to Investigate Problems Relating to the Air-line Industry, the United States Merchant Marine, Domestic Land and Water Transportation, and Radio, Telegraph, and Telephone Communications, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 3 pages |
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Page 28 - ... (a) The encouragement and development of an air transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense...
Page 27 - This report shall contain such information and data collected by the Commission as may be considered of value in the determination of questions connected with the regulation of commerce, together with such recommendations as to additional legislation relating thereto as the Commission may deem necessary ; and the names and compensation of the persons employed by said Commission.
Page 545 - No air carrier or foreign air carrier shall charge or demand or collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation...
Page 396 - Competition to the extent necessary to assure the sound develop-ment of an air-transportation system properly adapted to the needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense...
Page 50 - No term, condition, or limitation of a certificate shall restrict the right of an air carrier to add to or change schedules, equipment, accommodations, and facilities for performing the authorized transportation and service as the development of the business and the demands of the public shall require.
Page 254 - aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other contrivance designed for such navigation but used primarily as safety equipment.
Page 842 - Any air carrier may make charter trips or perform any other special service, without regard to the points named in its certificate, under regulations prescribed by the Board.
Page 190 - ... of such sound value or so secured as reasonably to assure repayment...
Page 10 - ... compensation for the transportation of mail sufficient to insure the performance of such service, and, together with all other revenue vi of the air carrier, to enable such air carrier under honest, economical, and efficient management, to maintain and continue the development of air transportation to the extent and of the character and quality required for the commerce of the United States, the Postal Service, and the national defense.
Page 115 - You have a table here for the grant obligation by activities which I will ask to be inserted in the record at this point. (The tables referred to follow:) Grant obligations by activities USE OF GRANTS Mr.