...Transportation Act of 1920 is avowedly a reversal of policy. It directed that the Interstate Commerce Commission "prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of...continental United States into a limited number of systems." The significance of the Act is that, for the first time Congress realized that it is possible, in pursuing...

...future. When the Transportation Act of 1920 provided in ?eneral terms for " the consolFinance idation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems" and when, in accordance with that Act, the Interstate Commerce Commission proposed in 1921 a "tentative...

...the Railway plan. It went so far as to direct the Consolida- Interstate Commerce Commission to tion "prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties . . . into a limited number of systems," in which "competition shall be preserved as fully as possible...

...the amendment of section 5, paragraph (4) of the act to regulate commerce, of 1887, making it read as follows: The Commission shall as soon as practicable...continental United States Into a limited number of systems. In the division of such railways into such systems under such plan competition shall be preserved as...

...policy was expressed in the following language amending section 5 of the Interstate Commerce Act: (4) The Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare...continental United States into a limited number of systems.42 The policy adopted by the Congress in 1920 failed because of the means employed to effectuate...

...section 5, paragraph (4) of the act to regulate commerce, of 1887, making it read as follows: 1 1 In' Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and...continental United States into a limited number of systems. In the division of such railways into such systems under such plan competition shall be preserved as...

...respectively, and as an alternative •Section C (4) reads as follows: "(4) The Commission shall as goon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation...continental United States Into a limited number of systems. In the division of such railways Into such systems under such plan, competition shall be preserved...

...COMMISSION BY THE COMMISSION : By report in this proceeding dated December 9, 1929, 159 ICC 522, we adopted a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems, in which we assigned the properties of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Company and the New Orleans...

...1, 1936, which amended the original agreement also in certain other particulars. In the Commission's plan for the consolidation of the railway properties...continental United States into a limited number of systems, as modified upon presentation of the so-called 4-system plan for eastern territory, the properties...

...fact which unfits him for the trusteeship. Section 5 (2) of the Interstate Commerce Act contemplates the "consolidation of the railway properties of the...continental United States into a limited number of systems". By the provisions of that section, however, no consolidation or other form of railroad unification...