Word: icc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern roads got a forced lesson in low-fare operation when ICC ordered their coach fares cut from 3.6? per mile to 2?, their Pullman fares from 4? to 3?. While they talked darkly of a court fight (which they did not make because Baltimore & Ohio refused to join them), the new rates increased passenger revenues. New York Central, whose big, bald President Frederick Ely Williamson headed an indignant protest committee of Eastern road presidents, enjoyed a $7,000,000 rise in passenger income for the year...
...Eastern roads were not convinced. They credited better business to recovery not to lower fares. So last July, when facing Depression II, they persuaded ICC to up coach rates to 2½?. Immediate result: New York Central's August revenues dropped 17% from the same month in 1937, B. & O.'s dropped 19.5%, New Haven...
...empty most of the time) ,2.7? one way, scaling down to 2.43? for round trips over 900 miles; corresponding cuts in the charges for upper berth Pullman space. (The Southern roads which have been operating at cut rates and have found them good, last week filed proposals with ICC for another 10% reduction in round-trip coach fares to a minimum...
...authentic 1860 rolling stock for Union Pacific, he bought his equipment from Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway, which hauled $700,000,000 in gold and silver from Comstock Lode, got an ICC railroad operator's license to transport V&T's 37 vintage cars to location (at 15 m.p.h.). > He persuaded 700 reluctant Piutes, Sioux, Cheyennes and Navahos, some of whom had steady jobs on WPA to work in breechclouts, despite low temperatures Chuckled Mr. DeMille when the thermometer once approached zero: "First time I ever saw a red man turn blue." > Disliking the looks of contemporary...
...Majority Leader Barkley told the President that Senate confirmation of Wisconsin's pinko Tom Amlie-offensive to businessmen-to the ICC was doubtful, thereby giving rise to expectation that Mr. Amlie's name would be withdrawn...