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Example sentences for "interstate"

Lexicographically close words:
interspaces; interspecific; intersperse; interspersed; interspersing; interstellar; interstice; interstices; interstitial; interstratified
  1. The relation of the manufacturer to interstate and foreign commerce being thus only incidental and indirect, the business is subject to state control.

  2. In 1906 were passed pure food laws, greatly enlarging the duties of the Department of Agriculture in reference to inspection of foods prepared for interstate commerce.

  3. Mere intention to ship goods does not make them subjects of interstate commerce, but they must actually be put in motion or committed to the carrier for that purpose (Coe v.

  4. In 1903 the Interstate Commerce Act was amended by the Elkins Act, making much more difficult the granting of rebates.

  5. This had little significance at the time for interstate commerce, its purpose being to meet the objections of foreign countries to the importation of American meat.

  6. The phrase "interstate commerce," as used in the United States, denotes commerce between the citizens of different states of the Union.

  7. The impossibility of this situation was so evident that the Interstate Commerce Act, long under discussion, became a law a few months later.

  8. As to the first, President Cleveland was kind enough to write me an autograph letter asking whether I would accept one of the positions on the new Interstate Railway Commission.

  9. President Cleveland's tender of an Interstate Railway commissionership, my declination.

  10. Service on the railroads is authorized and paid for under a space basis system authorized by Congress and approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  11. Did you ever hear of the Interstate Commerce Commission?

  12. The verdict will be no surprise to those who have followed closely the so-called coal cases through the preliminary investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the recent trial.

  13. Interstate Commerce Decision Complaints similar to those voiced by Stockton were registered by the people of Los Angeles.

  14. The Circuit Court for the Southern District of California refused to enforce the decree of the Interstate Commerce Commission in this case.

  15. To appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission was not thought of, and in view of the limited authority and brief experience of that body it is not probable that an appeal would have produced important results.

  16. To break the force of the comparison, Mr. Huntington was wont to compare Southern Pacific figures with the averages reported by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the so-called Group X, which included the Pacific Coast.

  17. Nor must the influence of the Interstate Commerce Commission in reducing intermediate rates be left out of account.

  18. Transcontinental Rate Adjustment These differences in conditions between state and interstate traffic doubtless influenced Mr. Huntington and his advisors when they came to establish what is known as the transcontinental rate adjustment.

  19. Ruptured ties with former trading partners, output declines, and sometimes erratic efforts to move to world prices and decentralize trade - foreign and interstate - took a heavy toll on Russia's commercial relations with other countries.

  20. He protects the business man with the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  21. The Interstate Commerce Commission regulates interstate transportation, controls freight rates and passenger fares, and promotes the safety of travel by prescribing rules concerning equipment and methods of operation.

  22. The Federal Trade Commission is charged with the duty of preventing various abuses in interstate business, especially in the nature of unlawful trusts and combinations.

  23. As to the relations of the railroads to the public, it is clear that the recent widespread discussion and the salutary influence of the Interstate Commission must lead to beneficent results.

  24. His father was practically the owner of the Interstate Aero Company.

  25. Dave and his young assistants had fairly lived at the plant of the Interstate Aero Company.

  26. It pleased Mr. Brackett to exhibit this last masterpiece from the Interstate Aero Company’s factory.

  27. The cloud of uneasiness passed from the brow of the president of the Interstate Aero Company.

  28. The work of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  29. Report from the committee on interstate and foreign commerce favoring bill to establish a life-saving station at Gay Head, Mass.

  30. Report from the committee on interstate and foreign commerce favoring bill to amend "An act for the construction of a railroad bridge across the Mississippi at South St. Paul, Minne.

  31. Report from the committee on interstate and foreign commerce to accompany bill (S.

  32. Report from the committee on interstate and foreign commerce favoring joint resolution to promote the improvement of the waterway from the head of Lake Superior to the sea.

  33. Report from the committee on interstate and foreign commerce favoring bill to provide a revenue cutter for the harbor of San Francisco.

  34. Report from the committee on interstate commerce to accompany bill (H.

  35. Report from the committee on interstate and foreign commerce favoring bill extending the privileges of secs.

  36. It was at the first interstate conference, also, that a committee was appointed to wait upon the American Federation of Labor Executive Board, during the Norfolk Convention in November, 1907.

  37. The former was the first interstate conference of women unionists ever held in the United States, and it was therefore a most notable event.

  38. To these women the very meaning of international or even interstate trade competition must have been unknown.

  39. During April and May interstate commerce was the subject of an extended debate in which I participated.

  40. During this session there was a very full debate upon the subject of regulating interstate commerce, in which I participated.

  41. The articles, written by Charles Edward Russell, were so exact that they read today like the reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, dated three years later.

  42. But in spite of all pious admonitions, the Interstate Commerce Commission yielded to the public clamor, and an investigation was made--revealing such conditions of rottenness as to shock even the clerical retainers of Privilege.

  43. In the case of the New Haven, we know a part of the price--thanks to the labors of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  44. This collapse of the railroad service started a clamor for investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which of course brought terror to the bosoms of the plunderers.

  45. They saw a strong connection, for example, between the new Interstate Commerce Commission's order outlawing segregation in interstate travel and the services' efforts to secure equal treatment for troops in transit.

  46. The Interstate Commerce Commission, with strong assistance from the courts, made a series of rulings that by 1961 had outlawed segregation in much interstate travel.

  47. The spirit that should inspire the States is the fullest freedom in purely State problems and the largest unity in laws that affect important questions in Interstate relations.

  48. The attitude of the Governors in their conferences is one of concentration on State and Interstate problems which are outside of the domain and Constitutional rights of the Federal Government to solve.

  49. First, let us examine the following table, compiled from the reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, showing the recent growth of the transportation business in the United States: Increases Per Cent.

  50. The statistics of railway capitalization, as given by the Interstate Commerce Commission, are, unfortunately, not always computed according to the same rules.

  51. As the party journeyed up from the coast, marking the line which now constitutes the interstate boundary, three buffaloes were seen on Sugar-Tree Creek, but none of them were killed.

  52. Colonel Byrd's discoveries along the interstate boundary between Virginia and North Carolina fixes the presence of the bison in the northern part of the latter State at the date of the survey.

  53. In the United States the various States have each a railway commission, while the general Government is represented by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  54. By unifying the various interstate systems of commerce and transportation, the iron and steel industry has greatly expanded.

  55. The act also created an Interstate Commerce Commission of five members to serve six-year terms, into whose hands the administration of the measure was placed.

  56. The land-marks of the controversy were to be found in interstate commerce acts, anti-trust laws, income taxes, bureaus of labor and factory legislation.

  57. Despite the Interstate Commerce act, the practice of rebating had continued.

  58. The effect on Congress, however, of the portion dealing with interstate commerce was represented by a cartoon in the New York World.

  59. Since the bulk of the traffic on most roads crosses state borders at one time or another in its transit, the regulation of rates within a state normally affects interstate commerce.

  60. Numerous complaints having reached Washington that the mails were being obstructed and interstate commerce interfered with, President Cleveland decided to send troops to Chicago.

  61. The Interstate Commerce law had met with grave obstacles in the courts; the Sherman act had been seldom invoked by the federal executive, and in the most prominent case, United States v.

  62. The Supreme Court declared that the mere purchase of sugar refineries was not an act of interstate commerce and that it could not be said to restrain such trade, and it refused to grant the request of the government.

  63. The railroads could meet these greater costs only by raising rates, a process which involved obtaining the assent of the Interstate Commerce Commission and required a considerable period for its accomplishment.

  64. It enlarged the scope of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to include control of express and sleeping car companies, pipe lines, switches, spur tracks and terminals.

  65. In particular--and it was here that the conflict was destined to rage--the President called for the transfer to the Interstate Commerce Commission of the power to determine the rates which the roads should be allowed to charge.

  66. It was held to be within the power of Congress to keep "the channels of interstate commerce free from immoral and injurious uses.

  67. Hence state regulation of the intrastate activities may sometimes be overruled as an interference with federal regulation of the interstate commerce.

  68. Earlier uncertainties owing chiefly to two questions--What is interstate trade and Does the act enlarge the common-law rule as to what restraints were unlawful?

  69. Theoretically, only such activities of the railroads and trusts as are of an interstate character fall within the federal jurisdiction.

  70. The Supreme Court reversed the state courts and held the New York legislation void as an interference with the right of Congress, under the Constitution, to regulate interstate commerce.

  71. Congress has found ways, under the constitutional grants of power to lay taxes and regulate interstate commerce, to legislate in furtherance of the popular demands.

  72. The labor of production, it was said, had been performed before transportation began and thus before the goods became the subject of interstate commerce.

  73. This has been decided with respect to the interstate transportation of lottery tickets, of impure food and drugs, of misbranded articles, of intoxicating liquors, and of women for the purpose of debauchery.

  74. Mr. Hughes said: There has been in late years a series of cases sustaining the regulation of interstate commerce, although the rules established by Congress had the quality of police regulation.

  75. The Thirteenth Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission is a virtual confession of the failure of legislation to accomplish a purpose which was supposed to be easily within its field of action.


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