Word: icc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum motortruck freight rates for the New England and Central States. To stop destructive rate wars in the industry, ICC established a new "floor," averaging 1½% higher in New England and 3½% higher in the Central district than rates now in effect...
...onetime Rhodes scholar whose first big job was assistant to famed Criminal Lawyer Clarence Darrow in 1910, Charles D. Mahaffie was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission eight years ago. Since then he has been ICC's chief dissenter - notably on railroad reorganizations which, he said in 1936, "have not been sufficiently drastic." Last week, with Commissioner Mahaffie alone dissenting, ICC approved a reorganization plan as drastic as any ever devised for a major U.S. railroad. Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will...
...Reaffirmed with slight modifications the hours of service restrictions for the trucking industry as drawn up last December. Originally scheduled to go into effect July 1, these rules were postponed upon protests from Labor, which wanted a maximum 8-hr, day, 48-hr, week. The ICC's truck division had specified a maximum 60-hr. week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that...
...chairmanship of Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama, the Conference (minus Kentucky, which withdrew because it suffers least from the disparities by its location, has a competitive advantage over the "deep South") visited President Roosevelt, carried on an extensive advertising campaign, developed a mass of data which they laid before ICC at Birmingham to prove that Southern industries suffer from the disparities in rates. At the Buffalo hearings, which began fortnight ago, Bibb Graves was on hand to publicize the South's position but not to testify. That privilege was reserved for the North, and Governor Herbert Lehman...
...biggest industrial centres have grown since 1914. That Louisville grew most is due partly to tobacco, partly to liquor, and partly to the fact that, lying on the Ohio, it does not suffer from the freight-rate disparities which Governors of other Southern States last week were protesting to ICC...