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Word: icc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this lollipop in his hand, Bob Young went right back to ICC and asked for more. What he wanted now was the right to vote the 400,000 shares of New York Central stock which the C. & O. has bought since last November. ICC had forced C. & O. to put its New York Central holdings in a voting trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busy Bob | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Pleasure. Bob Young accepted, though two directorships would not give him all the voice he wanted in Central. Eventually, he hoped to get enough seats for full control, merge Central with his C. & O. Before Young could even have his two directorships, ICC would have to approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Bob Young Moves In | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Once on Central's board, Young could begin his missionary work to reduce Central's huge debt, step up modernization. But he could not hope to get quick control of Central unless 1) Central's present directors submitted, 2) ICC added its blessing. Last week Central's directors were seriously thinking of making Young board chairman right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Bob Young Moves In | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...economy might have come a month earlier except for the anguished cries of Henry J. Kaiser (TIME, March 10) for a freight cut for his Fontana steel plant. This had held up the Geneva reduction. As ICC said that it would continue to study Western freight rates, Westerners guessed that Henry Kaiser might soon get his reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST: Cheaper Steel | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...week's end, on the day before the reduction was to go into effect, the ICC agreed to hold up the rate changes while it investigates. It looked as if the West would not get cheaper steel from Big Steel unless Henry Kaiser got a freight reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST: H. J. v. Big Ben | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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