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Ford appears undecided on whether he will retain Secretaries Claude Brinegar of Transportation, Peter Brennan of Labor, Frederick Dent of Commerce, James Lynn of Housing and Urban Development, and foot-in-mouth Attorney General William Saxbe. If Saxbe is asked to resign, a good stroke might be for Ford to reappoint Richardson to the job thus putting the Justice Department back into the hands of a man who early insisted that Watergate be fully investigated and that those involved be prosecuted. Chances are, though, that if Richardson is brought back into the Cabinet, it will be in a less prestigious...
...Veto. The bill is endorsed by organized labor, many shippers who use the railroads, and most railroad executives. Transportation Secretary Claude S. Brinegar has denounced it as "damned expensive." He would like to see tighter limits put on employee compensation and federal support for the creditors. But even though his skepticism is shared by the President, Brinegar predicts that there will be no White House veto...
...least one Ohio truck stop. Typically, a trucker grosses $300 hauling a load between Pittsburgh and Chicago and keeps $55 as profit. Rocketing fuel prices now slash that profit by $23. The truckers want the government to set a diesel-fuel ceiling of 35.9? per gal. Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar and the Cost of Living Council have agreed to look into charges of price gouging by truck stops. ? Fuel scarcity: When truckers say "Fill 'er up," they are calling for 100 more gallons; typically, tanks hold...
...stopgap aid and imposition of a 1% tax on all rail, truck or barge freight movements in the country, with the aim of raising another $400 million a year to keep the Northeast railroads running. The next day President Nixon's new Secretary of Transportation, Claude S. Brinegar, rejected the idea of a federal bail-out and proposed instead a kind of freight version of Amtrak, the quasi-Government corporation that runs long-distance passenger trains (TIME, March 26). Brinegar would create one or more corporations, with presidentially selected boards, that would take over assets of the six bankrupt...
Both plans seem incomplete. Without some consolidation such as Brinegar wants, federal aid on the scale contemplated by the ICC could become a massive, endless drain on taxpayers. The root problem of the Northeast lines is that their track system was vastly overbuilt around the turn of the century; in an era of trucks and pipelines it no longer carries enough freight to keep all the lines alive. On the other hand, Brinegar's belief that no federal money will be needed is almost surely wishful thinking. "There is no way for a bankrupt railroad to raise money other...