Adjustment of Postal Rates, Hearings Before ... 82-1, on S. 1046, S. 1335 and S. 1369 ..., March 20 - May17, 1951 |
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100 percent additional advertising American American Legion amount approximately Association average basis believe bill budget bulk bulk mail BURKE carriers CHAIRMAN charge circulation class mail classes of mail committee Congress copies cost ascertainment cost of handling deficit delivery distribution DORAN effect employees expenditures expense fact farm farmers February 18 figures first-class mail fourth-class mail going Government interest Interstate Commerce Commission LATIMER letter magazines ment million newspapers operation organizations paid papers parcel post piece post cards Post Office Department postal cards postal rates postal service Postmaster General DONALDSON pound present profit proposed publishers question railroads Railway Express Agency rate increase Reader's Digest revenue rural rural free delivery second-class mail second-class rates Senator BUTLER Senator CARLSON Senator DIRKSEN Senator PASTORE Senator UNDERWOOD shipments statement subscription subsidy third-class mail tion transportation United users volume Wentzel zone
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Page 345 - Vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the joint committee, and shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original selection. The joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members.
Page 766 - At a General Session of the Interstate Commerce Commission, held at its office In Washington, DC, on the 19th day of May AD 1914.
Page 252 - Perhaps at no time in the history of this country has there been a more persistent cry for conservation than there is at this present day.
Page 224 - War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.
Page 346 - Sec. 402. The committee, acting as a whole or by subcommittee, shall conduct a thorough study and investigation of the entire field of labormanagement relations, including but not limited to — (1) the means by which permanent friendly cooperation between employers and employees and stability of labor relations may be secured throughout the United States; (2) the means by which the individual employee may achieve...
Page 1 - ... per centum of the weight of copies mailed to subscribers during the calendar year) when sent by the publisher thereof from the post office of publication or other post office, or when sent by...
Page 347 - The provisions of sections 102 to 104, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes shall apply in case of any failure of any witness to comply with any subpena or to testify when summoned under authority of this subsection. (d) The committee is authorized to appoint and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, fix the compensation of such experts...
Page 34 - ... inches in length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person of any postal employee or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishable within a period reasonably required for transportation and delivery...
Page 33 - The classification of articles mailable as well as the weight limit, the rates of postage, zone or zones and other conditions of mailability under this Act, if the Postmaster General shall find on experience that they or any of them...
Page 766 - And it is further ordered, That a copy of this order be served on...