Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1930, a Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. subsidiary extended a 20-inch natural gas pipe line originating in Kentucky to the outskirts of Coatesville. There it came to a dead end at Poor House Road, 31 miles from Lukens' plant. Philadelphia Electric Co., which holds a franchise to distribute...
Now that there is reason to believe Depression II has turned the corner, nothing is of more importance to business than the Government's drive to reshape the antitrust laws. Last week, as the Monopoly Investigation sharpened its pencils and Big Business received a thumping endorsement from the Brookings...
¶ Began interstate regulation of natural gas companies. Under the Natural Gas Act passed by Congress last month, the Federal Power Commission was given powers similar to those it has over interstate transmission of electricity. Last week FPC started a broad investigation of the whole field, filed preliminary rules & regulations...
¶ Raised passenger coach fares for Eastern railroads from 2? to 2½? a mile. Having refused this grant three months ago, the Interstate Commerce Commission reversed itself in keeping with the Government's broad policy of being as lenient as possible with the hard-pressed roads. But the...
Sandwiched neatly between winter boom and summer slump of sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the...